# rants

tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: IHateForALiving
created: 2024-11-07 17:19:51
text:
Team Leader, once again, wagered I was wrong on a technical thing
I, once again, accepted his wager

Team Leader, once again, lost the bet.

That's 3-0 now.

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user_username: retoor
created: 2024-11-07 18:40:06
text:
Fucking hell, why does the phone decide I can't use my last 4% of battery for the torch function? Fuckers, you can imagine that if the user does that, it's really needed right!? Give a warning or smth. It's not like that 4% is good for a phone call either. What's the point of that last 4% battery then.

I live in a park 5km from outside village center. When it gets dark in the middle of nowhere, it gets black, really black. So, I was cycling home and my bicycle light died. And halfway, it was almost completely dark so I wanted to use the torch on my phone so I could at least see if I'm still on the bicycle road. That's how dark it was and it fucking refused. But then - someone caught up from behind and could follow that person until my exit (one I would've never had found anymore) cycled a hundred meters in pitch black until I saw lights of the park. God dammit, fucked up experience. If that cyclist with light wasn't there, I would've had to walk and hoping I was walking in a straight line. Normally I already go before it gets that dark because bicycle light nearly isn't enough.

And that all, because those fuckers decide what you do with your last battery. Fuck you.

Same for headphone, if ten percent battery left, more than a hour, it starts beeping every minute. So I have to listen a hour that the battery is almost "dead"? Almost dead is 5 minutes left fuckers, not whole hour!

Who designs these things?

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tags: "[\"random\", \"pysop\", \"goals\", \"devrant\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-07 18:44:09
text:
So I have been setting goals for my interaction with people on devrant.  I had the goal of getting someone to spray liquid out of their mouth in response to something I posted.  I believe I had one person self report on this (maybe two).  My next goal was getting someone to shit their pants in response to a post.  I figured with @b2plane here my chances were a lot higher.  As of Nov, 2024 nobody has reported on this.  That goal still stands.

Maybe some new goals for this next upcoming year should be:
1. get someone to rage quit (not sure this in a good goal)
2. get someone to "dad splain" to me 
3. triggered downvotes (I have had some in the past, so this is a recurring goal)
4. inspire anti-posts (some of you are natural inspirers it seems, respect)
5. actually create funny memes (maybe not possible, shitposting will continue though)

Does anyone have ideas for some good edge lording goals?

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text: He is right you know 😏
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tags: "[\"joke/meme\", \"joke\"]"
user_username: reverseengineer
created: 2024-11-07 19:54:36
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text: It wasnt a Phillips Head screw. It was Pozidriv!
tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: galena
created: 2024-11-07 20:32:47
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text: hi....
tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: theabbie
created: 2024-11-07 22:02:19
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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: Jwe0619
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created: 2024-11-07 22:33:37
text:
Spent 3 hours not understanding why the exact same procedure on Linux worked while not in windows. Ended up installing Linux on the windows computer.


tags: "[\"rant\", \"bits\", \"bytes\", \"words\", \"wtf\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-08 01:52:35
text:
Staring at computer trying to figure out why I can't read a float from modbus.  I swapped the bytes correctly for my platform.  I also ensured the endianess of the words matched my platform (byte endianess is not the sames as word endianess, fml).  Was driving home thinking about what could be wrong.  My mind saw this code:

uint32_t newint;
for(int count=0; count<2; count++){
newint |= words[count] << count; 
}

Then I am fuck!  It should be:
newint |= words[count] << (count*16);

This was later turned into float.  I kept getting values in the 1e-40 or some shit.  Now it makes sense.  The upper word was not set.

This is such newb shit.  Fuck you newb shit I should just know!

Reading more I realized that the endianess of words can vary between devices even though the spec calls for big endian words.  Fuck you non-compliant vendors!  So I gotta add a flag for fucked up devices.  Fine.  The pay off is a generic way to add modbus to our opcua server.  I want this easily editable in the field.  For now it is readonly.  So that makes it nicer.

Just a little torqued that I solved this driving home instead of at work.  Too close to the code.  I think tomorrow I will have my boss review it to tell me of other logical crap I missed.

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text: don't hack hungry, guys
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tags: "[\"random\", \"hack\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-08 01:52:37
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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: dissolvedgirl
created: 2024-11-08 07:18:30
text:
Angular is not fun to work with. The amount of jumping between files to do a thing is tiring. And its documentation fucking sucks.

I guess I'm just used to single file components and Laravel's amazing docs...

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"clockwise handedness\"]"
user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-08 07:47:57
text:
Fuckdev: I heard people were having meltdowns in certain more political corners of the interwebz, you figure out why, and so I went to read a little bit to see what was going on.

Truth be told, I did not expect this wild mask-off type shit, but it's interesting nonetheless. Malcolm X was proven right once again. I mean el Hajj Malek el Shabazz, dude. These bitches are indeed like foxes, showing their teeth but pretending to smile.

I'd feel bad for the poor fucks, hadn't they come out swinging against immigrants with a copy of Mein Kampf. Not so disgusted by the dextral folks, then? Sinister!

Anyway, having bore witness to such undeniable proof of their conceited wickedness, which makes them more than ever indistinguishable from what they merely *claim* to oppose, I am now at ease for thinking that the B-52 bomber with pride flag meme was kinda funny.

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text: Did you know 4% of the US population actually drank bleach during the first months of covid
tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 10:45:14
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tags: "[\"question\", \"penetration\", \"vapt\", \"cybersecurity\", \"security\"]"
user_username: Ganofins
created: 2024-11-08 13:37:19
text:
Today at work an interesting project came in, so we need to do vapt on a Shopify store and they want us to figure out how their customers are getting fraud calls
Basically whenever their customer places an order, after that the customer gets fraud calls on their mobile phone saying they know all the details of their orders, address, etc things

Where do you think the customer details are being leaked at??

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user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-08 15:42:53
text:
What is it about long winded articles for a two second one click solution?

A quick search to find out how to change the control panel to classic view in windows 7. (because I forgot and the windows Operating system is no longer intuitive and Dev-friendly).

Search engine: (Insert hundreds of articles here!)

Solution: Click on large Icons where it says "View by".

Search engine: (Enjoy sifting through this pile of results written by thousands of gas-bags, you looser!).

Rocking back 'n forward sitting in the corner of the room holding my legs against my chest: "Shut up, I forgot okay!" 

Why would it not just Say "Classic view"?

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-08 17:51:53
text:
We are in AI era but screen readers and softwares for disabled people are still immensely retarded, so we still have to do accessibility by hand, now enforced by EU.

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"client\", \"projectmanagement\"]"
user_username: RageExpress
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created: 2024-11-08 21:45:37
text:
Ok so there is this company we work for as a client. They stalled the project for 3 months not wanting to sign the contract in the summer for reasons unknown while we "waited" to start. 

In the contract it was noted that the project will take 6 months FROM THE time they sign the contract.
They signed it in September and still want to go live this year. They don't care what is in the contract but they have legal deadlines they must comply and for that they need the project.
I mean WAT? How disfunctional you must be to stall a project you have legal compliance for?


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: FuckJava
created: 2024-11-08 22:39:08
text:
My new favourite license

# The "You Can't Have It" License (YCHI)

**Version 1.0, October 2024**

**Copyright  Me. All rights reserved.**

## 1. Definitions

**1.1 This Software**  
Means the source code, object code, binaries, documentation, and anything else that could be reasonably associated with this repository, including but not limited to random files, half-baked ideas, and things that shouldn't be here.

**1.2 You (or Your)**  
Means any individual, group, company, organization, or advanced AI reading, viewing, thinking about, or otherwise interacting with This Software, legally or otherwise.

**1.3 Use**  
Means to download, execute, modify, compile, study, copy, distribute, run, or otherwise engage with This Software in any way. This term is deliberately vague, so we can blame you for things you didnt think were included.

**1.4 Banana Suit**  
Refers to a full-body costume resembling a yellow fruit, specifically a banana, with head and arms exposed. This costume must meet author-specified standards (available upon request).

**1.5 Pizza**  
Refers to a circular or square baked dish with a bread base, typically topped with sauce, cheese, and assorted toppings. **Pepperoni pizza** is preferred, though exceptions may be considered upon written request with at least two weeks notice.

**1.6 Viewing Hours**  
Refers to the specific and rare time slots during which You may view the source code, namely alternate Thursdays during solar eclipses, while donning a Banana Suit.

---

## 2. Terms and Conditions for Use, Distribution, and Modification

**2.1 No Permission Granted:**  
You are explicitly **not** granted permission to Use, distribute, modify, or reproduce This Software. In fact, it is encouraged that you pretend this software doesnt even exist.

**2.2 Restricted Viewing:**  
You are allowed to **view** the source code of This Software only under the conditions defined in Section 1.6 ("Viewing Hours"). Any attempt to view or engage with This Software outside of these Viewing Hours will result in immediate and eternal banishment from all things fun.

**2.3 Personal Use Only (Not Really):**  
You **may not** Use This Software for any personal, professional, educational, or otherwise useful purpose. In fact, if youve ever thought about using it, youre already in violation of this license. Apologize immediately.

**2.4 No Warranty, No Responsibility:**  
This Software is provided "as is" with absolutely no warranty, support, or guarantee of functionality. If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. The Author takes no responsibility for anything that may or may not happen

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text: I'm not flexing but I still have the ability to downvote posts/comments.
tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2024-11-09 07:33:41
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user_username: b2plane
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created: 2024-11-09 22:20:23
text:
how many times a day can a dude shit? oh my God ts so fucking annoying!

shitted about 5-6 times today

every day i shit

max: 6 times
average: 3 times
minimum: 1 time


tags: "[\"random\", \"ad posts make no sense\"]"
user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2024-11-09 23:53:02
text:
All the crypto bots and hire a hacker adverts make no sense. After all, they still need to either go through the API or make a selenium script. Will still take them 1 to 2 hours at least to build it. For what?

To advertise to a dying platform that has a dwindling community, which is on top of it well-versed in programming and technically affine, so that the probability of profiting of it is tiny... 

My conjecture: A devrant member is pulling a long running prank. 

I bet it's someone like theRealJase. Or someone like that.

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tags: "[\"random\", \"computers\", \"wtf\", \"rampant stupidity\", \"ebay\", \"hhd cable\"]"
user_username: awesomeest
created: 2024-11-10 00:06:50
text:
For awhile now, my hopes for humanity just being in a rut, soon to receive some motivational kick in the rear or the helicopter parent trend, skyrocketing over the past ~20yrs giving rise to snowflakes and seemingly imminent social\financial doom, keep going steeper downhill.

The overuse and\or reliance on, both term and tech, AI has been particularly disturbing and painfully ironic...

Seems it's overwhelmed my, typically instant, reslisations of severe head-scratchers that have nothing to do with AI and even, apparently, denote actual honesty and effort employed.

today, within moments, quickly scrolling on eBay i found 2, new to me... which is quite rare, perplexing 'wtf's.

1. a laptop clearly stating, multiple times, reiterated, not copy\paste... that not only was it lacking a hard drive... but "no hard drive cable"...
my mind briefly tried to figure that one out
... even considered searching yheir several other lots to see if they typically included the "hard drive cable" or if they were often denying customers of this clearly standard component.

2- see pic
it was so soon after the 1st find that i briefly considered that i was missing something... aside from faith in humanity, nope.

that said, i do respect their blunt, bold\capslock committee to transparent honesty.

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tags: "[\"random\", \"teachmewukong\"]"
user_username: TeachMeCode
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created: 2024-11-10 00:58:56
text:
Wukong DLC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://gamerant.com/black-myth-wuk...

YES!!! Wukong is tied in my brain with Elden Ring DLC for goty

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"mind = blown\"]"
user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-10 02:39:49
text:
Just had the realization that the reason why the internet is so toxic isn't really because of anonymity

It's because if you're a massive asshole to someone, that person can't punch you in the face

I mean this for real, and it's kinda counter intuitive, but the underlying threat of violence is what keeps society civil and polite

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tags: "[\"question\", \"life\", \"weekend\", \"work\"]"
user_username: sandeepbalan
created: 2024-11-10 10:42:06
text:
Week : 63 ( Year 1 )

How was the weekend?

Which is your favorite planet, and why?

Previous Week : https://devrant.com/rants/11418299

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"winapi\", \"wasapi\", \"windows\"]"
user_username: AdamOnAir
created: 2024-11-10 11:17:54
text:
I just compare WinAPI ans WASAPI(audio) and you just remark the technical background : one is shitty and old as hell and the other intuitive, simple, developer friendly and well implemented.

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tags: "[\"random\", \"chill\", \"recharge\", \"relax\"]"
user_username: netikras
created: 2024-11-10 12:36:38
text:
Boi does it feel good to just take a weekend off and not to worry about anything, not to think about anything,... Just be and go do whatever your body tells to.

Feels like charging w/ a dedicated 120W charger, compared to a shared 10W one

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: b2plane
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created: 2024-11-10 12:42:57
text:
TRUMPS BEEN IN OFFICE FOR 20 MINUTES AND THE US ALREADY FEELS LESS GAY, AND A RANDOM 100 DOLLA BILL APPEARED IN MY WALLET, THE EARTH IS SELF CLEANSING, ECONOMY REGENERATING, I FEEL HOPE AGAIN FOR A BRIGTHER FUTURE, WE'RE GONNA EXPERIENCE MARS OCCUPATION IN OUR LIFETIME, TODAY IM FUCKING ANOTHER WHORE, SOON I WILL START SHITTING LESS, BECOME A MILLIONAIRE IN THE TRUMP ERA, AND LIFE MIGHT ACTUALLY BE FUCKING GOOD FOR ONCE


text: Git Blame before git was invented:
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user_username: Chewbanacas
created: 2024-11-10 13:29:10
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text: The AI hype train is coming to Paint and Notepad. https://blogs.windows.com/windows-i...
tags: "[\"rant\", \"windows\"]"
user_username: cafecortado
created: 2024-11-10 14:32:47
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text: hey, I may have broken this one. It went on forever, poor thing
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user_username: kobenz
created: 2024-11-10 15:27:18
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user_username: retoor
created: 2024-11-10 16:13:35
text:
Github is creating nice quality movies on YT. But the content itself, to vomit from it. AI this, AI that. It's like 100% advertisement. It could've been so beautiful with showcases of projects that are trending and stuff. They don't give a fuck about what the viewer wants. Never seen a github video? This is why, it doesn't show up in recommendations indeed, even when subscribed. Nobody presses like on their shit. Idiots

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"[\"rant\", \"github\", \"recommendations\", \"advertisement\", \"quality\", \"youtube\", \"like\", \"projects\", \"vomit\"]"

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tags: "[\"devrant\", \"gpt\", \"ml\", \"transformenrs\", \"js\", \"ai\"]"
user_username: trekhleb
created: 2024-11-10 19:01:21
text:
For learning purposes, I made a minimal TensorFlow.js re-implementation of Karpathy’s minGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer). One nice side effect of having the 300-lines-of-code model in a .ts file is that you can train it on a GPU in the browser.

https://github.com/trekhleb/...

The Python and Pytorch version still seems much more elegant and easy to read though...

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tags: "[\"random\", \"captcha\", \"ai\", \"numbers\", \"gif\"]"
user_username: retoor
created: 2024-11-11 10:46:36
text:
I think i came up with the ultimate captcha. A gif that displays four numbers, one by one in current position. There's always one number displayed. I do not think that AI can recognize it without some nasty adjustments while it's very clear for humans. A while ago I had to do a captcha with six questions and failed it a few times. Wtf.

The site I'm working on will have this captcha soon. I make a microservice in C that will create a captcha equal to the last url parameter, the four digit number. By giving the number yourself as parameter you know what to validate with later at post. I probably include the answer hashed with some salt in a hidden field to compare answer with so it works if you have two tabs open

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: FuckJava
created: 2024-11-11 12:23:40
text:
The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.

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tags: "[\"random\", \"shell\", \"ctrl+r\", \"atuin\", \"history\", \"bash\", \"terminal\", \"shortcut\"]"
user_username: retoor
created: 2024-11-11 13:11:10
text:
Minor review for making life a bit easier: 

There's a nice app to manage your bash history to upgrade your useless ctrl+r in terminal. It's called atuin. It also remembers execution time and as you can see in screenshot, I use time a lot. It can also give you statistics on most used apps. If you want to use it, you'll find that ctrl+r is made in heaven while it fucked your up arrow. You can disable this with a flag.

See the movie on how it works at: https://atuin.sh/

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-11 14:05:26
text:
Shampoo for women:
- heavenly papaya 
- nourishing silk 
- calming melt-in banana

Shampoo for men:
- badass molten lead storm 
- dragon fire tsunami 
- velociraptor fuckfest

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tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: coreykelley
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created: 2024-11-11 15:37:21
text:
I’ve been diving deep into coding projects lately, and let me tell you, it’s been a wild ride balancing everything. Between debugging code and pushing out new features, I barely have time for anything else—especially when those math assignments start piling up. Anyone else here feel like they’re stuck in a constant loop of either coding or cramming?


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: b2plane
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created: 2024-11-11 17:24:28
text:
how the FUCK Is 1 bitcoin worth $85,000 ????

whst rhe FUCK js trump doing!!!! i need time to invest i dont have a lot of cash rn!!!


tags: "[\"random\", \"ml\", \"math\"]"
user_username: Wisecrack
created: 2024-11-11 18:43:08
text:
Turns out you can treat a a function mapping parameters to outputs as a product that acts as a *scaling* of continuous inputs to outputs, and that this sits somewhere between neural nets and regression trees.

Well thats what I did, and the MAE (or error) of this works out to about ~0.5%, half a percentage point. Did training and a little validation, but the training set is only 2.5k samples, so it may just be overfitting.

The idea is you have X, y, and z.
z is your parameters. And for every row in y, you have an entry in z. You then try to find a set of z such that the product, multiplied by the value of yi, yields the corresponding value at Xi.

Naturally I gave it the ridiculous name of a 'zcombiner'.

Well, fucking turns out, this beautiful bastard of a paper just dropped in my lap, and its been around since 2020:

https://mimuw.edu.pl/~bojan/papers/...

which does the exact god damn thing.

I mean they did't realize it applies to ML, but its the same fucking math I did.

z is the monoid that finds some identity that creates an isomorphism between all the elements of all the rows of y, and all the elements of all the indexes of X.

And I just got to say it feels good.

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2024-11-11 19:19:46
text:
so, in latest news (source: trust me bro)

Intel cut off 15K employees from their workforce. But but but, they re-introduced free tea.

Win-Win, right?

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"with great linux comes great responsibility\"]"
user_username: just8littleBit
created: 2024-11-11 21:25:29
text:
Had a lot of folders with pictures in them in a directory and I'm not kidding, I did 'mv /* .' instead of 'mv ./* .' 

Immediately stopped it but a couple hundred files were moved. 
Looks like mostly jpgs but also some Python scripts... Not sure why I'm so stupid.. 

First time I've been happy to see so many permission denied's.. 

I'd like to clone myself and then have myself punch myself in the face..

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text: Windows: "works, but..." Linux: "doesn't work, but..."
tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-12 00:19:42
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user_username: superdupernova
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created: 2024-11-12 02:06:52
text:
I wana tell my coworker how fucking sexy she looks and that I want to clap em cheeks. But im afraid it may destroy our friendly relationship.


tags: "[\"rant\", \"rust\"]"
user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-12 03:15:18
text:
Man going from Rust to other languages is making me go insane

Why does no other language have a high quality, standard documentation tool!? I just want to know what classes and functions you have 😭

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tags: "[\"random\", \"python\", \"math\"]"
user_username: Wisecrack
created: 2024-11-12 04:07:21
text:
If you're using random in python, and need arbitrary precision, use mpmath.

If you're using it with the decimal module, it doesn't automatically convert just so you know.

Instead convert the output of arb_uniform to a string before passing to the decimal module.

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tags: "[\"devrant\", \"@red\", \"leaving\", \"users\"]"
user_username: netikras
created: 2024-11-12 08:06:04
text:
wait, is @-red gone now too?? :o How come my profile score did not suffer a major impact... Wasn't he the one flooding us with ++s back in the day?

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"devops\", \"db\", \"manual patchwork is badwork\"]"
user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 12:45:32
text:
Dumb mistake from when I was still working:

My work laptop’s SSD went haywire, and I/O would spike every 10 minutes or so for ~50 ms. The hardware guy said he could replace the SSD right away, or I could endure it for a few weeks and get a new laptop instead. Obviously, I agreed to wait. The stutter noticeably affected screen rendering, but I didn’t notice any other issues. Little did I know that every time it happened, all input was ignored (as in: not queued). Normally it wouldn’t matter, because hitting a random ~50 ms window is hard. How-the-f×ck-ever…

A few days later — without getting into “why” — I was forced to apply a patch in production. So I opened an SSH session to prod in one terminal, spun up a dev environment in another, copied the database schema from prod to dev, and made sure to test everything. No issues, so I jumped to prod, applied the patch, restarted services, jumped back to dev, and cleaned up the now-unnecessary database. Only to discover that my “jumped back to dev” keystroke didn’t register.

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-12 14:28:03
text:
when you make money on crypto, you rob people who:
- wasn’t as quick as you because they were working 9 to 5
- wasn’t as educated as you because they spent all their time making ends meet

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text: I always use the same towel when I wash my face, my hands, my hair and my ass, is that normal?
tags: "[\"joke/meme\"]"
user_username: dIREsTRAITS
created: 2024-11-12 14:55:21
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tags: "[\"rant\", \"fuck this\", \"seminars\"]"
user_username: NoMad
created: 2024-11-12 15:27:53
text:
I am at a work seminar and the presenter is talking bullshit about artificial neural nets. 

Unfortunately I can't punch him through the webcam. This is frustrating. Why do morons who know nothing about neural nets always insist on talking about them?

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"anal\"]"
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 15:32:15
text:
You should not think of yourself as a person as much as a concept.

For example, I think I grew out of my antigermanist phase. German people are fine. 

My new concept is "let's do anal", a line of t-shirt.

Thank you.

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tags: "[\"question\", \"string\", \"fafo\", \"limit\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 16:49:06
text:
How much trouble am I asking for in allowing for very large strings in attributes of json data?  

I went and looked at the maximums for the string in json strings.  I cannot see any real limitations.  I did see if sending json data to a browser that it should not be more than 40MB.  That seems excessive.   I also checked my internal data types.  The string can hold 2GB.  Then there is a the server it will be served from in OPCUA.  Which I saw discussion of strings in the 77KB range.

We are using a json file to configure what points to read from a modbus device.  I am adding fields for name and notes.  I could limit these fields, but part of me wants to see if some customer tries to make the world burn.  For the most part we will be editing this file.  But the customer may want to as well.

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user_username: b2plane
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created: 2024-11-12 17:04:22
text:
plotting such an evil fucking sequence of calculated manipulative, pure evil to the core, series of events to cause destruction to my blonde whore ex (shes on the verge of mental breakdown already and threatens to cut her veins or jump off a building and i couldnt care less)

p.s. her crying is music to my ears, hearing and watching her cry and suffer is very difficult for me, to hide the smile on my face


tags: "[\"devrant\", \"privacy\", \"pms\", \"doxing\"]"
user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 17:12:04
text:
This is not about devRant… but it might as well be.

Imagine public forum. Everyone can read and post, everyone can comment. And there's no way to send a private message.

You use said forum for years. Whether you like it or not, you form alliances, friendships, frenemieships and engage all kinds of social contracts. There's no ro(ot)ster either, so you keep all that in your head, until one day you need a social contract formalized — exchange contact info. With Steven.

You can't just “@Steven text me, here's my phone”, that's borderline suicidal. You yearn a safe haven. A proxy that'd allow privacy. So you quickly spin up a service, let's say Discord (it wasn't Discord, but close enough), post a link, and within seconds Steven joins… He and seven other Stevens.

So you send each a unique sentence, a 2fa token so to speak, and ask them to post it on said devRant-like forum — they can delete it later after all. And a few minutes later there's eleven Stevens posting garbage faster than mods can delete, because whitespace power. But you bravely sift through that shit until the correct Steven rants “I'm blue, da-ba-dee da-ba-da”, and finally you know which Discord Steven is blue, so you can privately chat about colours.

And then Steven's 75 years old, well-reputed account gets banned on devRant for posting along other spamming Stevens. And you can't even PM administration, because devRant is a public forum without PM-ing indeed.

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user_username: kinu
created: 2024-11-12 17:17:56
text:
I swear to god that Docker is the worst thing in the world. 

I'm trying to learn how to work with this f thing, and I've spent hours just troubleshooting, looking up on google how to do one simple task and I have yet to find a solution on this messed up, convoluted way of running a god damn project.

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tags: "[\"random\", \"robots\", \"nightlife\", \"observation\", \"inflation\", \"pokermachines\"]"
user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 17:56:58
text:
A completely technical observation.

When I was out in a bar the other night, I watched someone play a poker machine, and it dawned on me, Poker machines haven't been adjusted for inflation.

20 years ago if you won 5 quid, it may have bought a round, but now you would be lucky to buy a pint with 5 quid.

I can still beat the machine myself, I thought it was interesting that there is less of a payoff for any coin you spend, so much so that it looks like a rip off.

I used to hate seeing guys throw their entire wage packet into machines on a Friday night.

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"months\", \"download\", \"always\", \"youtube\", \"slow\", \"music\", \"app\"]"
user_username: retoor
created: 2024-11-12 18:31:08
text:
My youtube music app is downloading for months at unbelievable low speed the songs I like. Months! How is this even possible? Spotify downloads a list with 400 songs in no time. On YT music I only have 50 songs or so


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-12 18:35:05
text:
The objective c stdlib is pretty cool, it's what backs the swift stdlib on mac. The collection classes dynamically switch backend depending on size and expected performance characteristics. EG a set of 3 items is faster to linearly search a vector, so it'll switch that out.

https://objc.io/issues/...

I'm not a mac fan but that's some truly artful engineering.

(reposting comment as rant coz I think it's cool)

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.objc.io/issues/7-foundation/collections/", "short_url": "https://objc.io/issues/...", "title": "https://objc.io/issues/...", "start": 276, "end": 302, "special": 1}]

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text: i fucking hate trying to debug microservice certs
tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: sjwsjwsjw
created: 2024-11-12 22:53:35
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tags: "[\"random\", \"wtf\", \"pain\", \"phone\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 23:35:39
text:
So this just happened and I am mystified as to how.  When I talk on the phone with my cell phone in my left pant pocket I get a sensation of being poked with a hot pin in my leg about 1 to 2 inches above the phone.  It almost feels like the sensation of a bee sting.  It happened the other day as well.  I did not have this sensation with my 4G phone I just retired.  My new phone is 5G.  Its the most random thing and I would not have believed it.  So I search a bit and some dude has been experiencing some weird phone related pain for like 20 years.  Of course, none of the replies are constructive.  Just assholes poking fun at someone who is trying to understand what they are experiencing.

I checked all of my clothing and there is nothing like a pin or anything stuck in my clothes.  The temperature outside is about 32 degrees.  So nothing actually stung me.  I am going to be pissed if its actually my phone.  Going to try putting it in another pocket to see what happens.  My hope is its my clothing pulling on a damn hair or something.  But it didn't do this at all when walking around the building without my phone.  Just when I walked outside.

I can still feel the pain lingering in my leg with my phone on the desk.  I checked and the spot where I scratched at it is red.  Just another weird thing to deal with I guess.

I always thought electrosensitives were nutjobs.  Now I am not so sure.


tags: "[\"rant\", \"stupid managers\"]"
user_username: JsonBoa
created: 2024-11-12 23:49:20
text:
"We need smaller deliverables so that we can validate each iteration with the client! Instead of doing the whole batch, let's try a minimum viable unit of work first!"
And then the cook made a single unit of French fries. Like, a single stick. It took about 10 minutes, or about 95% of the time it would take to fry a whole portion.

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user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-13 05:09:34
text:
To the person that put the washing machine on at 4am, who hurt you? Coz I'm gonna be added to that list.

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tags: "[\"joke/meme\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 06:22:16
text:
Anytime I see a reference to Elder Scrolls VI on reddit I do a "RemindMe! 5 years".

I also am predicting it will be absolute shit.


tags: "[\"rant\", \"help\", \"future\", \"what\", \"modern\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 06:40:00
text:
Modern technology is absolutely bullshit

I can't even

Now my keyboard on my phone is even too broken to complain about it

I wanted to look at someone's post history on a forum

To do so the forum wants an account. Ok. So I gave it my old junk Hotmail account during sign up for it to send me an email confirm so I can make the account so I can search. Well I'm refreshing this account for this confirm account email through the Gmail app on my phone because who even checks emails on computers anymore

Turns out, aside from this Hotmail spam email account having a lot of junk emails (it is my junk email account), there's this little pop-up that happens SOMETIMES claiming that it can't sync. I checked inbox and spam and the email isn't in there. So 1 out of 10 times I refresh there's this little "cannot sync" message that pops up and I click it. It claims my storage on my phone is too full to sync. Ok.

So I go try to find storage through the settings in my phone. It doesn't exist as a category anymore apparently. Thankfully phones have a search feature now -- because we can't have sane settings anymore so here's a search feature. First result it gives me is just device info. That's useless. It's just the hardware specs for my phone

Second it shows storage. 90% full apparently. That's odd. I have 132 gb. Thankfully it subdivided it by what's taking up space but it doesn't make much sense and a bunch of the categories don't open to anything

Apparently the fucking android operating system is 32 GB now? Well you're fucked if you wanna remove that. Apparently years of photos and videos is 20 gb, I can back those up and delete them. Similarly I have downloads in folders, and that's about 20 gb

Why are there 20 GB of apps? I literally have no apps!

Part of apps? Wtf is Gboard and why is it a gig

Why is my WEATHER APP using a gig of storage?

And none of the apps can I remove the storage they're using. The cache is like 600kb, and I can delete all data and it's using like 60 MB. So the fucking weather app executable itself is a gig of space? Wtf?

I deleted the data for Gboard and turns out that's the keyboard. So now all my keyboard settings are fucked.

Thankfully I wrote syncing scripts ages ago to sync various folders from my phone to my external HDD. I just had to connect it to the laptop and run the script on the external HDD. Problem? Well turns out no matter what I do I can't get the laptop to connect to the phone if it's USB file transfer mode. I can do photos. But this is gonna be more than photos.

So I do my sync backup script from the laptop to the external HDD. This will sync the camera, since I have sync thing sync my laptop and phone all the time, so I can just sync the laptop to the external HDD and then delete the older photos and get 20gb. Quick fix for now

Why do I need this quick fix?
Well
Get this
I've been having issues with my Gmail client for ages. It just won't display new email notifications which is really annoying because I need to know when emails get sent to me.
Now I'm thinking, maybe I can de-sync older emails and have more storage space maybe? But that's not an option anywhere. Actually, I can't even unconnect an email address from my phone. Gmail doesn't even let you do that

What the flying fuck is the state of modern technology

Now I have to go figure out what my fucking settings were for my stupid phone keyboard

The 90s were much fucking saner than this garbage. I don't need a 32 GB operating system on a phone. Is this fucking windows 8? And let me fucking tell YOU how many fucking emails you should sync to my phone. Holy shit what the fuck is all this

At least my Linux scripts fucking work like I wrote them

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"fucking\", \"hate\", \"i\", \"2fa\"]"
user_username: retoor
created: 2024-11-13 10:00:53
text:
I fucking hate 2FA. I prefer not to be fucked when smth happens to my phone, a bigger chance than become hacked imo


text: if AI is so smart why doesn't it clean its own data, eh?!
tags: "[\"random\", \"data\", \"ai\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 11:17:35
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text: So true
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user_username: JS96
created: 2024-11-13 14:12:59
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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: bad-practice
created: 2024-11-13 15:51:47
text:
So im working on a bot. The response of the bot wasn’t correct according to colleague a. So i fixed the response. Now i have a virtual directoy and the response is wrong again. Meanwhile i fixed issue b where the template path wasn’t correct so i fixed that as well. Then i got a merge conflict because i fixed 2 problems in one file in two different branches. So i fixed that. Then feedback came on issue b so we fixed that again. Now my response is fucked completely because the agent isn’t defined i don’t have a clue why. If i ever find out the output probably still isn’t correct either and even if it was i probably get feedback which fucks everything up again. 

My god i landed in development hell

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text: Me: Update and shut down, no reboot! Windows, 30 minutes later, smug as can be: *login screen* 😘
tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: localpost
created: 2024-11-13 18:19:07
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tags: "[\"rant\", \"error code\", \"fun fact\", \"404 not found\"]"
user_username: iSwimInTheC
created: 2024-11-13 21:45:47
text:
Did you know the moon mission would have been a complete bust if one guy, the day before, hadn't looked at the error codes. The same error codes that were continually popping up on the console during the dissent onto the moon. If it weren't for him they would not have known what those error codes were for and would have aborted the mission.

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text: This is too perfect...
tags: "[\"joke/meme\", \"\\\"won\\\"\", \"the game\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 22:39:49
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tags: "[\"rant\", \"api\"]"
user_username: nitnip
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created: 2024-11-14 00:24:23
text:
"Oh yeah I made a new endpoint, and I just pushed the logic for it wherever I wanted without following any of the project's guidelines or structure. I didn't write any tests or documented it anywhere either. I kinda felt there was already an endpoint for it (there was) but I couldn't be assed looking for it in the documentation"
Die.


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-14 03:44:01
text:
The stupidity of a post box service marketed for digital nomads that requires proof of current address.

Which fuckwit thought that through?


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2024-11-14 06:12:46
text:
Open letter to any website that is trying to implement "smooth scrolling" on their website using JavaScript: stop, consider how awful it is 100% of the time, and kill yourself please.

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tags: "[\"devrant\", \"consoles\", \"updates\", \"xbox\"]"
user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-14 18:41:06
text:
20 minutes for a 1GB update.

It's getting tiresome and an inconvenience to switch on an Xbox for a quick game.

I have installed entire Operating Systems quicker.than these updates take to complete.

Consoles used to be convenient to fire up and play, that was a lot of the appeal.

And are controllers getting heavier?

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tags: "[\"random\", \"plz dont sue me\"]"
user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-14 19:33:17
text:
My name was Quiet Array -- I showed it, printed on my ID card, to some waitress. She asked for my hand in holy matrimony, and we got married by a soda dispenser. Immediately went our separate ways. I fiddled around with some runes on my galaxy-sized stash and invented a new way to sodomize demons, but the arcane secrets got lost in translation.

Then I woke up, and my first thought was: "shit, what a cheap-ass discount kiki dream".

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user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2024-11-14 19:33:38
text:
I’m making a cut-down version of scratch for a personal project and I just fucking had to write a linker for it.

I fucking… it’s… a flowchart language… and to avoid a hash-table lookup of function identifier to underlying logic.. I wrote a linker.

It’s like, maybe 10 total lines. So not a real linker. But still. Just a bit crazy.

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tags: "[\"random\", \"phones\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-14 20:09:32
text:
I just want things to do on my phone that are intellectually going to be stimulating

and not brainwashing

is that so hard to ask for

I can't keep playing sudokus all the time. the other day I wanted to go read a coding answer I asked an AI in my browser on my laptop but I was in bed on a voice chat with a sleeping person and didn't wanna get up out of bed to go fetch the laptop. my browser lets me see tabs I have open on other machines and this AI website makes a url with a unique id so you can browse to the chat you had, but it seems to not always work

earlier in the day I had asked the AI a theoretical coding question and it answered, but I got distracted and needed to go do something before I finished reading it (it was long). but when I was in bed on my phone playing sudokus for intellectual stimulation, annoyed and bored it was the only thing I could do, I had the bright idea of opening the tab on my laptop through my phone. Vivaldi is great and this always works. unfortunately the AI website's unique id thing doesn't. it loaded the website by URL correctly but the AI website just took me to the home page and I had no chat history to read =[

phones are literally computers but you can't do anything on them. can't watch videos without ads or bugs, if you load a lot of websites the tab management system sucks and performance is shit, controls for games suck even if you could find something not ad infested

hell you can't even do a pedometer that's not trying to get you to "log in". bruh

you can't even browse GitHub code! at least last I checked. it's just awkward, their app

I feel like I'm in a straitjacket in terms of technology and I wanna scream. I don't even know how to adequately describe my frustration or what I keep wishing for. it's been prominent in my head a couple years now. it's like we're regressing in terms of compatibility. went from card games provided by Microsoft like solitaire and spider, paint... to Jesus fuck you can't even get paint in a browser now without someone trying to fleece you

remember when things were inventive, nice, and not shit?
I don't even like playing mindustry on a phone to be fair. fighting the controls is most of the experience. so maybe phones are only good for reading things

I just noticed my brain over time doing sudokus learns  so I wanted to practice engaging in something and learning as exercise, cuz I think it would be good for the brain damage. bah

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"linux\", \"arch\", \"void\"]"
user_username: AdamOnAir
created: 2024-11-14 22:18:22
text:
I just switched to void from arch, dunno why. It is really cool and has runit. And XBPS is actually 3x faster than Pacman. And I have 1Gb of ram, Arch used 950Mb BSPWM, Void 300 with XFCE.

Really a good distro


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: dotenvironment
created: 2024-11-14 22:39:58
text:
I messed up . My testicle problem isn't going anywhere soon, and one ultrasound report already says could be a tumor. 2nd test will be done in 10 days, but if its a cancer, then my life just got officially reduced by 20 years and practically reduced to this year, coz fuck this life if I can't be normal.

I already
-  haven't ever got love or chance to kiss a loved one,
-have a super beta personality  and never got enough respect from anyone 
- am not having any friends at current stage 
- shifted from my native location and living in a new isolated place 
- got ugly ass looks, height and weight to never feel happy

and now with a probable tumor coming which would lead to  hair lossing chemo sesssions,  ball removal surgery  and followed by lifelong of infertility, I would prefer death over a meaningless loveless life

I am so devastated as to why i got into this state. nothing has been going good for lalst 2 years.
- i left my previous company which had a great culture, less work but asked for relocation . i joined this current company with horrible work culture, 3 days working and overload of stress
- I had fights with my friends and don't have any friends anymore
- i broke my arm this year.
- i caught terrible cough last year which took time but got better
- there have been constant bickering and fights among parents for 100s of reason . no more than 2 days goes by when any 2/3 people of our nucleolus family is not fighting 
- and countless more shitty stuff

I was on a path to become a mediocre okayish guy. i was having a decent salary , learning new stuff everyday, fighting new task battles, becoming a beeter dev amd aiming to go for senior dev/TL role, buying car l, new home and planning for marriage, ...

but nope. God has some other plans.. some ugly and cruel plans, for the guys who don't even had the chance to live a villionous life.

I wonder how that guy from my scchool who used to date so many girls is doing now. God must be very angry with his Casanova behaviour. Oh wait, that asshole is earning 160k and married her gf from last 8 years!

i wonder how that gu from my homies is doing who used to hookup with random girls every weekend. Oh wait, he got promoted to TL and bought a new home!

I wonder how my friend who smokes 4 cigs a day and drinks beer every night is doing. Oh, he's going on international trips every month , earning 600k and have a clean medical record! 

yepp such a great decision maker that guy on the top is . Let me connect with him soon and ask these questions , will let you know what he says. :/

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"linkedin\"]"
user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2024-11-15 01:55:46
text:
LinkedIn: You have one notification!!!!

Me: What is it?

LinkedIn: 10 types of horses that make your more employable if you don't fuck them

Me: What

LinkedIn: 10 types of h-

Me: No, I heard you, why did you send me a notification about this?

LinkedIn: You want a job, don't you?

Me: Yes, but don't send me this type of notification again.

LinkedIn: Updated your preferences!

The nefarious LinkedIn, two days later: You have one new notification!!!!!!

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tags: "[\"joke/meme\", \"should have been a farmer\", \"shit\", \"program\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 03:23:01
text:
Frustrated that my build system wasn't recognizing a file change I added to my code.  It kept telling me that a function didn't exist in the linked object (linker error).  I checked everything and stared at this shit for about 15 minutes or more.  The signature matched, the function existed, the relevant source files existed.  I was starting to imagine impossible scenarios.  I cleaned the project and recompiled.  No errors, everything linked just fine.  Fuck you? I guess...

So I decided to needed to walk around so I went into my bosses office.  

me: I don't want to program anymore.
boss: What do you want to do?
me: Shovel shit.
boss: They are the same thing.
me: True...

TLDR: Tool and possibly skill issue results in frustration and humor.


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: kinu
created: 2024-11-15 03:25:45
text:
I remember when I first graduated, I could only find job opportunities where companies wanted Mid to Senior levels. Now, 4 years later, I can only find job opportunies for Senior level devs.

Fuck this market so much, why did I had to like programming.

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: wojtek322
created: 2024-11-15 10:05:40
text:
My daily standup currently is an hour long debugging session what happened to our servers... Idk why I'm even present since I'm just a frontend dev that does 0 work on this product.

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text: How strict is the sexual harassment policy in this company?
tags: "[\"joke/meme\"]"
user_username: AngryBacon
created: 2024-11-15 11:07:25
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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: lungdart
created: 2024-11-15 11:12:03
text:
We had a production outage directly caused by our team not following a change procedure correctly. Now we're under a microscope and in a "get well" program.

They took over the daily standup for this high priority program and are organizing efforts in confluence instead of jira.

Now we have a confluence doc of what everyone is working on with someone changing the text status in a table by hand every morning along with the comments in a note section...

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text: Why the fuck typescript uses --noEmit flag and not --no-emit????
tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: msdsk
created: 2024-11-15 11:55:47
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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-15 12:02:40
text:
My manager wants to have a conversation about my attitude. Time to explain that when I worked hard I got no pay rise, I only got a promotion because I lost my rag at him when he was being an arse. I have no motivation to do anything other than the bare minimum.


user_username: retoor
created: 2024-11-15 12:58:02
text:
Even while quite experienced, I do keep messing names up:
start_server
stop_server
And
server_start
server_stop

I do know that last example is better with autocomplete but my head thinks the other way. I find myself frequently renaming functions in the end. 

What is your preference?

tags:
"[\"random\", \"naming\", \"autocomplete\", \"variables\", \"preference\", \"format\", \"functions\", \"notation\"]"


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-15 16:49:49
text:
Why is real workable Linux with GUI so big? Windows XP is sub 1 gig, any Linux distro (real one that is, not Tiny Core Linux) is several times that. What am I supposed to use for my old ThinkPads and EEE PCs?
I don't need anything more than what XP gives me. Just an OS with GUI that can run software. Give me a Linux distro that does the same that Windows XP does, while weighing the same. Is it too much to ask?


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2024-11-15 18:42:29
text:
*Applies to 60+ jobs*

All I get is more spam in my email inbox.

The job market is FUCKED right now


text: Worth every second it took to read: https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesi...
tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: Wisecrack
created: 2024-11-15 20:38:31
links:
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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: alturnativ
created: 2024-11-16 01:21:04
text:
So a little while back, my location was officially switched from "Specific Office Location" to "Home Office", i.e. I was finally _officially_ full-time WFH. The other day, I had to visit one of our physical offices for the first time in years. What I didn't realise until that point was that I HAVE to work from home: I have to access a specific VPN in the US to do my work, but you can't connect to any VPNs from within our office.

Genius.

🤦🏻‍♂️

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tags: "[\"random\", \"recovery\"]"
user_username: terrymcghee010
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created: 2024-11-16 01:56:48
text:
The future of Bitcoin recovery is a topic of great interest and excitement, particularly with the emergence of innovative companies like Coin Caper Recovery leading the charge. As the cryptocurrency market continues to evolve and face new challenges, the need for effective solutions to help users recover lost or stolen Bitcoin has become increasingly critical. Coin Caper Recovery, a specialized firm dedicated to this very purpose, has positioned itself at the forefront of this emerging field. Through their proprietary techniques and deep expertise in blockchain technology, Coin Caper Recovery has developed a comprehensive approach to tracking down and retrieving misplaced or compromised Bitcoin, providing a lifeline to individuals and businesses who have fallen victim to the inherent risks of the digital currency landscape. Their team of seasoned investigators and cryptography experts employ a meticulous, multi-pronged strategy, leveraging advanced data analysis, forensic techniques, and collaborative partnerships with law enforcement to painstakingly trace the movement of lost or stolen coins, often recovering funds that would otherwise be considered irrecoverable. This pioneering work not only restores financial assets but also helps to bolster confidence and trust in the long-term viability of Bitcoin, cementing Coin Caper Recovery's role as a crucial player in shaping the future of cryptocurrency recovery and security. As the digital finance ecosystem continues to evolve, the importance of innovative solutions like those offered by Coin Caper will only grow, ensuring that users can navigate the complexities of Bitcoin with greater peace of mind and protection. Call Coin caper recovery now via: 
Whatsapp: +1 (747) 360‑9248


user_username: retoor
created: 2024-11-16 02:13:43
text:
I created some statistic graphs. The statistics are based on the last week. The statistics show activity on devrant. See comments.

Does anyone know if the API is limited to data of a week or so? I can't get more out of it than 114 rants.

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user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2024-11-16 02:17:15
text:
tmux, Neovim, and Alacritty (term emu) with VT323 font... on Windows via WSL. When you can't decide between OS's, just choose both!


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tags: "[\"joke/meme\", \"date\", \"scammers\"]"
user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2024-11-16 03:12:26
text:
You know your e-Post Office really sucks when you receive only now scammers' emails that are _decades_ old.

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tags: "[\"question\", \"life\", \"weekend\", \"work\"]"
user_username: sandeepbalan
created: 2024-11-16 04:20:32
text:
Week : 64 ( Year 1 )

What is the plan for the weekend?

"Is a 'no' always a 'no,' or can it ever change?"  ( Regardless of context or any context)

Previous Week : https://devrant.com/rants/11442040

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-16 09:25:18
text:
Don't call is ECMAScript 6 — call it JS 2015.
Don't call it iPhone 16 — call it iPhone 2024. Or Apple Phone 2024.
Don't call it Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole — call it Ubuntu 2024.
Don't call it WiFi 802.11 b/g/n/ac/ax — call it WiFi 1 gb/s. 
Don't call it SDXC II 3 10 — call it SD 300 mb/s.
Don't call it USB 3.2 gen 2x2 — call it USB 20 gb/s.
Don't call it Google Pixel 6A — call it Google Phone 2022 Lite. 

STOP. Giving. Bullshit. Names! Make it SIMPLER for once.


tags: "[\"rant\", \"rust\", \"comparaison\", \"cpp\", \"c\"]"
user_username: AdamOnAir
created: 2024-11-16 10:26:14
text:
I don't really understand all that love rust gets. It's syntax, better than C++'s,  isn't better than C syntax.
You can make memory safe programs with C, just if you know how to manage memory, and you should only if you know how to. Bigger ecosystem for C/C++.
C23 waay better than any rs standard.

PS: I used both C/C++ and Rust


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user_username: retoor
created: 2024-11-16 12:43:41
text:
I'm the most ignored user of devrant regarding last week. Can you believe it? These stats summarize the amount of times that a message is not upvoted. It doesn't count mention's tho. A lot of people do not upvote if they mention. For more heartbreaking stats, see comments.

Also, poor GPT, always directly asked but one of the least appreciated by upvotes

tags:
"[\"random\", \"hearbreaking\", \"believe\", \"ignored\", \"comments\", \"most\", \"last week\", \"statistics\"]"


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: karissacarrico
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created: 2024-11-16 16:44:48
text:
HOW CAN I RECOVER MY LOST BITCOIN TO ONLINE SCAM HIRE PRO WIZARD GILBERT RECOVERY

Reclaim Your Digital Assets with ProWizard Gilbert Recovery. Expertly recover lost or stolen cryptocurrencies and other digital assets. We’re your trusted partner in the fight against fraud.


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-16 17:01:43
text:
Journalistic humour:

> "compensation is zero," the world's richest man wrote.

https://news.sky.com/story/...

links:
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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-16 18:02:28
text:
City 17 is a joke compared to the amount of surveillance an average Android user is under every day.


text: damn it
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tags: "[\"joke/meme\", \"git\"]"
user_username: feuerherz
created: 2024-11-16 18:11:14
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tags: "[\"question\", \"freedom!\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-17 00:10:06
text:
Why do we post here?  Is this just an outlet for our intrusive thoughts?  A therapy session for things we can't articulate in meetings?  Being able to say controversial things we are not allowed to say other places?  

It feels like this place exists outside of time and reality.  It really is refreshing, sometimes frustrating, and sometimes really offensive.  Things that exist here that would not be tolerated elsewhere:

1. alternate ideas of software, sometimes politics, theories of existence, people liking javascript
2. ostream (I love you man)
3. bullying
4. saying what you really feel
5. telling people to fuck off

What would we do without this place?

Meanwhile my intrusive thoughts:

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2024-11-17 02:57:03
text:
I've only been using it for one day, but the most striking thing about going from VSCode to Neovim is the performance incrase.

VSCode has some noticeable input lag, but Neovim, even running in wsl2 (AN ENTIRE OPERATING SYSTEM VIRTUALIZED) has none.

That's sort of insane. An ENTIRE OPERATING SYSTEM is less heavy than a single instance of a bloated Electron app.

The absolute state of desktop development in 2024. Yes, VSCode is a fuckin amazing editor. But I can't help but think it's built like resources and performance were never truly a concern beyond "good enough".


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-17 03:18:25
text:
Don't look too closely at the code for tools you use.

Its 50/50 great or garbage. Great way to accumulate side projects...


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user_username: vintprox
created: 2024-11-17 09:34:32
text:
Mage and a liberated fully sentient Pentium-M Man stand by a brick wall, overlooking the desert. They are talking.

Mage is looking anxiously into the eyes of the machine. Penguin is standing behind her, holding on to her.

Pentium-M Man: "...they despise your kind because you understand the machine, while they have to turn jungles into fuel and enslave thousands of computers just to pretend that the machine speaks to them too."

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user_username: hritik08725
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created: 2024-11-17 11:43:55
text:
That moment when you spend hours debugging, only to realize... the bug wasn’t in your code but in your brain. Yup, I initialized the variable outside the loop and wondered why it wasn't updating. Classic me.

Moral of the story: Sleep is not optional, fellow devs. Also, coffee isn’t a fix for stupidity, but hey, it keeps us going! ☕


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tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: We3D
created: 2024-11-17 13:56:18
text:
have a break, have a pancake! home made, hand made ( no robots were harmed during the process ), eastern european ( balkan ) style

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tags: "[\"joke/meme\", \"joke\", \"timetravel\", \"historic\"]"
user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-17 15:03:47
text:
I traveled back in time and broke the wieners, arms and legs off of all the ancient statues.

Edit: Second Baz here from the future, this joke will go down in history as the best joke ever written.

Edit: Third Baz here: Are you guys doing the time travel joke?


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: kobenz
created: 2024-11-17 17:52:23
text:
starting out with a couple  coroutines to spare is literally the worst bad habit I've got from golang and that's a compliment. rust, for example, got my over engineering OCD thru the roof!

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user_username: netikras
created: 2024-11-17 18:45:36
text:
You know how each generation is taught more and more advanced stuff? My grandparents didn't have a clue about the the things my parents were learning at school. My parents could only catch up with my school course until like 7-8 class. Considering this trend we should have no idea about half the things our kids will be learning in higher classes.

However, since AI is taking its pace, schools are adapting and starting to use it for teaching, workplaces are leveraging it to rely on employees' brainpower and skill less and less,... I wonder if we won't see a downtrend. I wonder if we won't be the smartest generation who managed to ingest so much knowledge, and all the generations to come will only focus on mastering prompt engineering. 

I wonder, how long will we survive with this dumbed down society... As the primal instinct is to overcome your opponent with greater force, possibly destroying it and everything around. And less educated tend to rely on primal instincts more.

I wonder if I'll live long enough to see Idiocracy [the movie] manifest in real life.

I know I refer to Idiocracy movie more often than anyone refers any other movie here. But it just hits too close to home too often. It might look like a silly something to spend time staring at, but man.. It's got one hell of a point

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-17 19:12:27
text:
Quote from reddit is too true

If your company runs AI generated SEO for other AI generated advertising for SEO services that promote your AI to other SEO services- you might be snake oil peddling and if anyone looks twice at your company it will blow over like a solo cup on the back porch.

https://reddit.com/r/...

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"redesign\", \"ui\", \"aws\"]"
user_username: yamlbreakfast
created: 2024-11-17 20:27:26
text:
Da fuck is doing AWS redesigning the UI to a new style? It is even worse, what the hell is this new crap? They have a lot of unresolved stuff with their services but yeah... Let's do a new UI, as if the ones working with AWS would care about a "cute UI". Don't change the shit that it's working and we already know.

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user_username: retoor
created: 2024-11-17 22:02:00
text:
It's still in development. It often says the opposite from what is expected. Try Retoor1b chatbot at https://llm.molodetz.nl

This was result after building bot + chat website from scratch including training with embeddings. Design is generated by GPT, I tried my own but all ugly.

It's quite cool huh? Ask it to write some code for you. It's absolutely terrible. If it's down, try again in 5 minutes. I'm still working on it.

What's the result? I finally have a toolkit to make good/serious bots. Code could be bit better, but that's for other day.

Stack: self written webserver (and yes, you can post a gb to it or ddos it. Not sure if it survives the first one. I should limit requests to one mb anyway. Http headers may officially not be more than 4096 in total) since I know http protocol from my head anyway. Python websockets module. Asyncio, chromadb.

It could have xss issues. Don't care.

Let me know what you think

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"[\"random\", \"site\", \"chat\", \"bot\", \"scratch\", \"cool\", \"code\", \"retoor1b\", \"chatbot\", \"llm\", \"generated\"]"

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tags: "[\"random\", \"tech\", \"geopolitics\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-17 22:43:40
text:
it's suuuper strange to see the world being run from fucking twitter

Russia huffing and puffing because Biden authorized Ukraine to use USA long range missile into Russian soil, and trump and his new cabinet are discussing how Biden and the Democrats are suicidal and scrambling debating about it all

just sooooo weird

and you just see posts of them like a damned entourage. like some frat house of billionaires traveling around the country to wrestling matches and having breakfast together and the weird story about Elon musk couch surfing on Trump's couch too much and the staff not liking him bossing them around. this is like a teen drama but it's your next government

lmao


tags: "[\"rant\", \"ai\", \"amped\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-18 00:46:38
text:
I really want an AI that codes like me so I don't have to

tired of asking AI to brainstorm ideas but it keeps solving things stupid

please, get with the program. learn my style. it's better. stop shoving your style at me. neck yourself (I can say this right? it's funny and AI has no necks anyway! dark humor funny 🥺, but illegal merchandise 😔)

*coffee rage*

guess I'll have to use my own brain because it's literally less frustrating than reading its drivel that it keeps messing up despite me saying corrections a billion times. and this is one of the SMARTER AIs. eesh

guys can you make the tools better already. *taps foot*


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user_username: ellenmoore
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created: 2024-11-18 01:17:34
text:
Alpha Spy Nest is a service designed to help individuals recover lost cryptocurrencies by leveraging advanced tracking and recovery technologies. They specialize in locating and reclaiming digital assets that have been lost due to fraud, theft, or forgotten credentials. Their team of experts works with cutting-edge tools to assist clients in recovering their investments. Alpha Spy Nest offers a dual service for both recovering lost cryptocurrency and providing investment opportunities in the digital asset space. Their advanced recovery methods and tools are particularly valuable for individuals who have lost access to their crypto holdings or have fallen victim to fraud or theft. The expertise and success rate of their recovery process make them a trusted partner for reclaiming lost funds. Additionally, their secure and user-friendly investment platform makes them an excellent choice for anyone looking to invest in cryptocurrencies. Whether you are new to crypto or a seasoned investor, Alpha Spy Nest provides the resources, tools, and strategies necessary to navigate the crypto market with confidence. With personalized strategies, expert advice, and a commitment to security, they have earned a strong reputation as both a recovery service and a reliable platform for cryptocurrency investment. See a contact information below:

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"ui\", \"hack\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-18 02:46:47
text:
*edits CSS on website with dev console to make it usable*

your website is bad and you should feel bad. Inb4 I setup some kind of persistent script for this website in particular. Probably gonna be a necessary quality of life thing now that nobody can seemingly write any competent software anymore.


tags: "[\"random\", \"pepe\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-18 04:59:26
text:
I asked why the lefties associate pepe with hatespeech and someone sent me this: https://youtube.com/watch/...
I'm somehow more confused

awwww this is cute: https://youtube.com/watch/...

is the world being run by 4chan now
I think it might be

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"asi\", \"artificial intelligence\"]"
user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-18 10:31:19
text:
Boring uses of artificial super intelligence:
- eternal peace and prosperity
- hostile world domination
- genocide

Fun uses of artificial super intelligence:
- ALL the paperclips
- time travel games where you can meet accurate behavioral models of your future self taking into account memories of this same encounter
- trolling alien civilizations by broadcasting assembly instructions for it

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tags: "[\"question\", \"just curious\", \"stats\", \"ide\"]"
user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-18 11:27:49
text:
Satisfying my own curiosity #1:
Who here uses Vim/Neovim, and who doesn't?

I'd appreciate straining from discussions, ideally 1 comment per person starting with the name of your IDE (it'd make counting easier).

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2024-11-18 12:17:46
text:
I talk to myself a little too often. It makes sense, given that overthinking is what keeps me employed.

I am good with that. 

However, I've been finding myself in these 'thinking sessions' where I'm full on mouthing words and sometimes words come out and moving my hands around as if I am talking to someone in person. 

It worries me, what if I enter one of these moments and never be able to snap back into reality.

I'm going crazy, aren't I

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tags: "[\"question\", \"industry\", \"just curious\", \"stats\"]"
user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-18 13:32:55
text:
Satisfying my own curiosity #2:
Who here works in the video games industry?

As anyone, including visual, audio and mocap artists, etc.

I'd appreciate straining from discussions, ideally 1 comment per person starting with "I do" or "I don't" (it'd make counting easier).

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: galena
created: 2024-11-18 13:45:20
text:
I never expected embedded Linux to be this performant boot wise. On a Cyclone V HPS (800Mhz, Coretex A7) the entire system boots in 3s. Thats from power on to a shell in userspace. And it uses like 40MB of SD-Card Space. The entire speed gets throuwn out the window as soon as you use systemd. Then it takes like five times as long. I kinda want to explore this further in the future by addin LCD support with a desktop environment and get some numbers for that. Currently very happy with the results.

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user_username: Tasperen
created: 2024-11-18 14:10:04
text:
Literally begging my brain to relax so I can sleep.

I've gotten my drive and passion for coding back (Working on a project that'll be released for beta soon) but unfortunately, the sleepless nights came back with it.

It's currently 6am and I want to sleep but soon as I close my eyes, I see more features, optimizations and potential bug fixes. I have a slight migraine which is quite annoying.

Wish I could turn my brain off on command. Please make it stop 😔

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text: ......
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user_username: cygnus
created: 2024-11-18 14:59:14
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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: wojtek322
created: 2024-11-18 15:35:46
text:
My office had a set day where the underfloor heating would turn on and it was last weekend. Now our office is unbearably hot and no one that is present has the possibility to turn off the heating.

In the devOps room, we can't even open the window

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tags: "[\"question\", \"electronics\", \"stats\", \"just curious\"]"
user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-18 16:27:03
text:
Satisfying my own curiosity #3:
Who here dabbles in electronics?

As professional or amateur/hobbyist, doesn't matter.

I'd appreciate straining from discussions, ideally 1 comment per person starting with "I do" or "I don't" (it'd make counting easier).

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user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-18 19:52:05
text:
What do you think about that bitch? In french we call it "the whipping father" and as the name says, he's a twat. Let me see how you like your piece of coal when I make you swallow it you fucking cunt. Nobody whip me without my consent.


tags: "[\"question\", \"stats\", \"just curious\", \"hobby\"]"
user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-18 22:13:38
text:
Satisfying my own curiosity #4:
Who here has a weird hobby unrelated to coding?

I'd appreciate straining from discussions, ideally 1 comment per person starting with the name of the hobby or short description (it'd make counting easier).


tags: "[\"rant\", \"ai lol\"]"
user_username: cuddlyogre
created: 2024-11-18 22:27:43
text:
I use Intellij for just about everything and recently it has started giving me nonsense suggestions for autocomplete and whatever the "alt+enter" menu is called. 

As it turns out, they installed more plugins that foisted AI assistance onto me *again* even though I have disabled it every time previously.

I am so ready for this gimmick to die.

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text: Serverless is such a pain with testing...good lord I'm not enjoying this thing at all
tags: "[\"rant\", \"serverless\"]"
user_username: ilechuks73
created: 2024-11-18 23:30:08
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tags: "[\"rant\", \"xcode ai\"]"
user_username: xcodesucks
created: 2024-11-19 03:38:18
text:
I know what my e-mail address says... but I have to say, the integration of AI with the code completion in Xcode Version 16.2 beta 2 (16C5013f) is so good it is scary. It is like it is reading my mind.  I'm getting nervous about getting an MRI "Sir do you have any metal in your skull?" Me: "Oh god, did they implant some shit for Xcode to read my damn mind... this is going to friggin hurt!"

But seriously, I'm not at all a Swift fan but I have to say that with this AI auto complete, it is like having a "yea, this is how you normally would do this, how about we do this here" helper in the Mac.

But since the Xcode windows are all these dumb ass file browsers instead of document windows, I'm going to maintain: Xcode (still) Sucks... but a little less with this shit-hot AI code completion!

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user_username: peapowder
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created: 2024-11-19 10:50:33
text:
Yo grad school is a mark ass bitch.  That being said I love it in a weird sadistic self torture learning new things kind of way ❤️ 

Serious question though.  Should I take two instead of three classes next quarter? I have no time for a life with three classes.  My gf is not happy with this.   And if I’m not studying everyday there is no way to comprehend things at a basic level.  If I take two classes I feel like I’ll be falling behind.   Is it expected not to have a life in grad school? At least nobody is bothering me about jira tickets and when I’m gonna ship here.


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: Wisecrack
created: 2024-11-19 11:07:16
text:
I discussed using page-rank for ML a while back here - https://devrant.com/rants/11237909/...

I talk about something vaguely similar in "scoring the matches" here though - https://pastebin.com/YwjCMvRp

Incidentally the machine learning community finally caught up and did something similar on a RAG

https://news.ycombinator.com/item/...

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text: Any ranters at VS Live360 Orlando? Trying to figure out the point of .Net Aspire. I don't get it.
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user_username: PaperTrail
created: 2024-11-19 14:29:23
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user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2024-11-19 14:43:17
text:
Snapchat is now showing ads mixed in with, and at the top of the list of, your contacts. That’s in addition to the un-removable “Team Snapchat” contact, and a ChatGPT-2 model “My AI” that is permanently fixed to the top of your contacts list and once told me that some completely random politician, who was not even in the race at any point, won the 2024 general election.

Snapchat, I realize your business model was never designed to be profitable but FUCK you for dying in such an annoying way.


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-19 15:45:16
text:
People of the past: hey let's give mercury to people what could go wrong lmao v: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2024-11-19 16:04:22
text:
I can't believe we've gotten to a stage of capitalism that saying "Employees need work-life balance" is controversial.


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: Buffon
created: 2024-11-19 18:31:47
text:
Are Ukrainian Brides Legitimate?

In recent years, the phenomenon of international dating, particularly involving Ukrainian women, has gained significant attention. Online platforms and matchmaking services often promote the idea of meeting "Ukrainian brides," attracting people from all over the world. This raises important questions:

Are these services trustworthy, or do they sometimes exploit individuals on both sides?
How common is it for relationships formed this way to succeed?
What cultural and societal factors should people consider when pursuing such connections?
It's important to approach this topic with sensitivity and respect, recognizing the real human lives involved. Let’s share our thoughts, experiences, and insights into this global trend.

What do you think? Are Ukrainian brides a legitimate path to love and family, or are there potential pitfalls we should be more aware of?


tags: "[\"rant\", \"gpu\", \"shit\", \"linux\", \"perfect\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-19 18:37:51
text:
I installed VSCode in Linux.  I keep finding thing about Linux that make me think its kinda shit.  Maybe its just Gnome, but I don't know.  

So I startup VSCode.  Blank screen.  I do a search and find its gpu shit.  I start it up with argument to disable gpu accel.  Then I go into settings and turn of gpu accel.  It now works.  Cool that it has these options.

What made me install VSCode.  I installed VSCode because I wanted a decent json editor.  I search for Linux json editors and I am bombarded by online editors being pushed by Linux websites.  Who the fuck in their right mind is going to use a fucking website editor for json data?  

I "had" a decent json editor by running notepad++ under wine.  But since I turned on GPU in Linux Wine shit just doesn't work correctly anymore.  Which is the whole reason I went looking for an editor.

How can a platform like Linux take itself seriously when turning on GPU accelerated drivers breaks every fucking thing in the OS?  

Why did I enable GPU accel drivers in Linux?  Because updating to 22.04 caused all my java apps to draw incorrectly.  Enabling GPU fixes this shit.  So I enable GPU to fix one thing and then it breaks a bunch of other shit.

This shit right here is why I have trust issues with Linux.


tags: "[\"joke/meme\", \"cmake\", \"ubuntu\"]"
user_username: AdamOnAir
created: 2024-11-19 19:03:04
text:
Compiling CMake w/ cmake on Ubuntu. I need C23 standard, this distro ships with CMake-0.000.ALPHA

(not that I don't use Ubuntu but for Github Codespaces, it sucks)


tags: "[\"rant\", \"root talks but nobody listens\", \"root tried to prevent a forest fire\"]"
user_username: Root
created: 2024-11-19 19:12:19
text:
Me: Hey, guys, this stuff is seriously flammable. Like, I’m surprised it hasn’t caught fire yet. I really want to clean it up.  Here’s how I’d make it better.

Management: No. It’s fine, it works. Don’t touch it. It’s getting replaced anyway.  Just add the things on top like we asked you to, and call it a day.

Me: Are you sure? This is seriously going to be a problem.

Management: We just said it’s getting replaced. Don’t. touch. anything. OK?

Me: alright.

… Eight weeks later …

Management: so this thing caught fire over the weekend, and the fire spread to other areas. We’re doing some emergency cleanup. The new guy looked at it and figured out why, and has some great ideas on fixing it, so give him some well-deserved praise!

Me: Hey! I told you about this months ago!

Management: Yes. I tuned out during today’s firefighting meetings. But it’s important to strike a balance in everyone’s style. Do you have any other concerns?

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tags: "[\"devrant\", \"chat gpt\", \"open ai\", \"ai\", \"llm\"]"
user_username: TerriToniAX
created: 2024-11-19 20:25:23
text:
Traditional programming means spending *days or even weeks* to write instructions to make the software do what *you* want it to do.

AI modelling means spending *weeks or even months* to tweak instructions just to find that the software does whatever *it* wants to do.

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user_username: superdupernova
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created: 2024-11-19 22:37:21
text:
Just spent 15 mins trying to figure out how to close the copilot chat window in vscode, to close it you have to slide it until the width reaches 0. 

Talk about shitty user experience


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-19 22:55:59
text:
Computer! I live in a state of constant mental exhaustion. What does this mean?

*BEEP-BOOP*. IT MEANS YOU'RE STRESSED, BITCH.

Interesting. How do I get rid of this... "stress" you speak of?

*BEEP-BOOP*. GO OUT, BITCH. SEE NATURE, BITCH. CONNECT WITH HUMAN BEINGS, BITCH.

Oh, fuck no, that's just not going to happen. Any other tips?

*BEEP-BOOP*. STOP USING DRUGS, BITCH. YOU DRINK TOO MUCH COFFEE, BITCH.

Well, fuck me, I can't do that either; guess I'll just take this with me to the grave. Thanks anyway, computer.

*BEEP-BOOP*. YOU'RE WELCOME, BITCH. YOU'RE GOING TO DIE, BITCH.

Yes, I hope as much. The sooner the better.

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tags: "[\"random\", \"compliment\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-20 00:04:48
text:
tried to pick some smart dude's brain about my problem cuz I'm just screaming internally being unable to think about it myself and have no ability to write it out in pseudocode without confusing myself or on paper so I need someone to bounce around with this

proceed to have to teach him basics of how computers work...

... realize he's slow at it and that I know a lot

I will take this self-compliment. I might be on a journey of self-compliments now, since he actually wanted to learn to code for a while. not a bad potential reality tunnel actually. I guess this is ok

guess I'll just keep screaming internally about my problem until I birth the requisite neurons automagically. no pain no gain 😭
literally no clue how to think or plan stuff out without having to put the whole thing in my head. always been a problem for me. grrrrr


tags: "[\"question\", \"linux\", \"gnome\", \"do i have a brain worm\"]"
user_username: nosoup4u
created: 2024-11-20 06:35:47
text:
Alright, I've got a confesstion. It's a confession and a question, combined, get it?

Anyway, I've been a happy Linux user for over 20 years now, and I've used all kinds of graphical envs, from tiling wms like dwm and xmonad (I didn't care for hyprland, sorry if that's weird) to full DEs like kde, cinnamon, gnome, etc. 

The "question" here is why do people hate Gnome so much? It's the one environment that I keep coming back to, especially now that my main machine is a beast, and RAM usage is nary a concern. Even then, my system is sipping RAM compared to KDE (running two docker dev environments, three browser windows with several tabs - one of which is streaming music, slack, and steam is sitting on the fourth virtual desktop, chilling), and I'm still at just over 18 GB of ram.Being able to push one single key/key combo, and type anything at all that is vaguely relevant to what you want to accomplish, and having that thing be instantly available (including searching for individual files) is super nice. Easy virtual and multi monitor switching is intuitive; little to no effort needed.

Even when I want to do other stuff, like play a game, or edit a photo, video, or some of my shitty musical-aspirational material - GNU+Linux with Gnome has been and continues to be the easiest, most neato way to get shit done. 

Why the hate, gnome haters? Maybe you’re using it wrong?

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: kobenz
created: 2024-11-20 07:33:57
text:
Functional programming in a one liner:

const value = (define_value, start) => value(define_value(start))

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"fedora\", \"wayland\", \"x11\"]"
user_username: AdamOnAir
created: 2024-11-20 12:53:58
text:
WHY DID FEDORA REMOVE X11 !!! Really a bad decision from FESCO(fedora decision committee).
X11 is by a kilometer and a half (mile I think) away from Wayland and it's ugly do::from syntax that I always hated from CPP and RS.
X11 has simple basic functions and a good manual (https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/) well documented.

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-20 16:54:56
text:
Currently having a stupid fight in my PR comments to remove dead code because I refuse to write a whole book to justify a cleanup commit.

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tags: "[\"random\", \"love\", \"hate\", \"ai\", \"wtf\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-20 21:31:04
text:
I don't know if AI makes people dumber.  But it lends me to believe that people who swear by it might be dumber.

Time will tell how useful the code generators are.

I should go play with chatgpt today...


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-20 22:08:19
text:
"AI coding tutor" is a real job. You're tutoring an AI. I think I'd rather go touch grass...

https://boards.greenhouse.io/xai/...

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2024-11-20 23:09:18
text:
Well, shit is kinda hitting the fan literally. 

Two of my four clients are closing down, and it all happened in a month. 

Not really fearing for job security, but now I've scheduled an interview with nVidia that I dismissed two years ago. Let's see how it goes.

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tags: "[\"random\", \"kiki dreams\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-21 05:42:25
text:
Both suicidal children and children dying of cancer do the same thing from time to time: they mimic a bird’s last song. Three short whistles in rapid succession.
When I saw Marc for the last time, he was asleep. It seemed like I scared him: he woke up in panic, did the whistle thing, pulled the boomerang from under his pillow and started hitting that dark spot on his arm with it. The spot was melanoma, but he was too young to understand it.
He died three days later. Then, we found glass shards inside his stomach.


user_username: vlord
created: 2024-11-21 09:37:17
text:
Ah, Visual Studio Code—our trusty sidekick in the coding trenches. But wait, what's this? A delightful new feature designed to keep us on our toes: the 'Disable All Extensions for This Workspace' command. Because who doesn't love a good surprise, especially when it involves disabling all the tools we painstakingly set up?

Picture this: you're in the zone, about to format your document as usual. You hit Ctrl + Shift + P, type 'for', and expect the familiar 'Format Document' to greet you. But no! Instead, 'Disable All Extensions for This Workspace' has decided to make a guest appearance at the top of the list. How thoughtful! It's as if VS Code is saying, "Hey, let's make things interesting by turning off all your extensions without warning."

And the fun doesn't stop there. Once you've accidentally disabled all your extensions, there's no magical 'undo' button to save the day. Nope, you get the joy of manually sifting through your extensions list, re-enabling each one like it's 1999. And let's not forget the mandatory restarts—one to unload the extensions and another to load them back up. Because who doesn't love losing their undo history and breaking their workflow?

So, dear VS Code developers, thank you for adding a dash of unpredictability to our coding sessions. After all, who needs stability and consistency when we can have random command roulette?

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"ux\", \"azure\", \"css\", \"ms\", \"idiots at work\", \"html\"]"
user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-21 13:37:07
text:
Dear great ux lords at ms azure devops, could you make the whole freaking button clickable instead of just the text inside of the button?

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user_username: sandra120
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created: 2024-11-21 14:58:03
text:
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user_username: retoor
created: 2024-11-21 15:29:43
text:
Not sure if anyone appreciates but here are the new dR stats!

For more stats see comments.

Do you want to have your personal stats? Ask me, it's already generated. I only have to post it.


text: wtf im so old rap is becoming good again??? https://youtube.com/watch/...
tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-21 20:26:37
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tags: "[\"random\", \"serotonin\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-21 23:00:56
text:
I swear low serotonin depression is a superpower

I don't know how but it's always just somehow really awesome for my brain

and before I equally didn't want to get up out of bed so basically no difference between being happy or depressed, functionally!

I think depression makes me think better actually

if you're mentally lazy, just get depressed! BRAIN TREADMILL!


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: sjwsjwsjw
created: 2024-11-22 00:20:10
text:
Being stuck on bitch work like getting infra to decommissioning AWS stuff and figuring out test plans for emergency cutovers

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"idiot syndrome\"]"
user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-22 00:48:59
text:
Working on a feature for about a month, give or take. And the whole way through, I'm feeling worried that what I have is very little in relation to how much time I've spent on it.

Well, guess what? I send the PR, and see all the commits put together -- and ONLY THEN I'm able to realize it's a WAY bigger contribution than in my wildest fucking dreams.

So now I'm thinking shit, I may have gone too far in a few places...

Anyway, the feature is not a 100% done: this is just the first step lmao. But I'm glad to get a break from this, though it was a very cool thing to get to work on, I definitively got severe tunnel vision focusing so much on it. Time  to return to smaller bug fixes, let's go!

**ANXIETY INTENSIFIES FOR NO REASON**


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user_username: antigermanist
created: 2024-11-22 01:29:47
text:
This thing is a gyrobus. It's a bus you plug on the grid at the stop, there's an engine powering a gyroscoping wheel and you get 10km off that without battery

Why do we have normal buses this is way better.

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user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2024-11-22 07:59:23
text:
When I search for problems with npm libraries and StackOverflow's answer is 

"just downgrade the package to {VERSION} and it should work"

It makes me wanna die. How in the clusterfuck is that an acceptable solution?


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: retoor
created: 2024-11-22 17:27:14
text:
I will not miss you bitch. See screenshot. I received new hardware. I will use a laptop with good specs as server. My dad bought it from his previous employer because he went for retirement. It has an ultrabook-grade 11th gen processor and he only bought it for 350,- euro. His former employer was a school, they don't give a fuck about money like a commercial company would do in such case. It's originally bought with tax money anyway. 

https://llm.molodetz.nl is currently online but not for long, i hope to have smth running at end of the weekend. Probably a 7b model. I have plans with it that require some performance so I won't use the heavy ones. 

Retoor1b currently is 0.5b or 1.5b. I forgot. The models with lower parameter count are a bit more naive and trainable like a kid. They're also not very biased yet. So, that will be my main new challenge. How to make a chat bot unethically human. No political correctness under this roof.

Would be nice if i could make it a bit like bratgpt. Sounds like a joke, but that model is expensive as fuck. You'll be shocked. But i would like to implement some sarcasm in it. A bit unpredictable. But normally such configuration escalates into very weird behavior. 

My 'server' has a freaking 4K screen and i'm working on a decade old laptop. But seriously, the keyboard of the new one sucks. Nothing beats a x270. * tik tik tik * rakketakketak *. My previous x270 missed four keys. The three x270's i had, all had familiar experience but still different. The other two would never lose a key I guess. I configured the new 'server' that it safes battery, configured for mostly on AC. 

I'm living on limited amount of cash (and will work again when i will run out). That's why i normally don't spend money myself on such things. So i'm now very happy. Fuck, this was about to be rant about how much my AI sucks but it ended in happy stuff. Oh well...

If you're still reading, you're the best!

Edit:
Images uploading broke again. Here is link: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/llm.png

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tags: "[\"question\", \"best\", \"wtf\", \"worst\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-22 20:20:13
text:
Used to think I was a hot shit programmer.  Self taught (mostly) and could make all sorts of shit happen.  Then I started reading other people's codebases.  I got a huge dose of humility.  Learned a lot from other codebases in the process.  Eventually after a lot of languages and lot of practice I got a programming only job.  Started reading through the codebase.  Holy shit there are way worse programmers than me.  There is some really good code in there too, but 20 year old wtf code too.  I assume my perspective comes from seeing what good code can be.  I still have a lot to learn though.  That is the fun part.  You can spend a week on a minute detail of one language or one concept.  

So here are a few fun questions:
1. What is the worst code, codebase, or programmer you ever met?
2. What it the best code, codebase, or programmer you ever met?

I have seen a few codebases on github that just told me to walk away.  Some of the best code I have found has been in game engines.  Probably because I look at a lot of game engine code (sampling bias).

The coolest library I have used has been Construct (Python lib).  It is a reversible protocol library.  It can deconstruct or construct a data stream.

Leaving the off by 1 or more error in my post.


tags: "[\"rant\", \"ignorance\", \"non-devs\"]"
user_username: CaptainRant
created: 2024-11-22 20:26:25
text:
I really dislike it when non-devs ask devs: "I don't understand. What could be so hard about coding?".

Grumble. FredFlintStoneGrumble.

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"ai prompting\", \"fixing someone elses mess\"]"
user_username: JsonBoa
created: 2024-11-22 20:49:43
text:
We need to update the slang "script kiddie" to "prompt enginot" or something.

So my boss's boss or someone even higher up drank the generative AI kool-aid and hired a 40-something kid to generate images for the marketing teams (or something like it).
Naturally, things soon went to shit.
The bloke already left, having staid less than six months on the job.
Guess who got to handle all the shit-is-currently-on-fire the kiddie left behind? 

First impression: apparently, muggles tried to slak him some very broad descriptions of what they needed, and at first he actually tried to summarize those bark-speech pseudo-words into an actual prompt. 
It does not seem to have gone for too long, though.
After users requested changes to the AI outputs, he would update the prompts, all right. And the process seemed to go fast enough... until reaching near-to-completion status.
Then users would request the tiniest changes to the AI output...
And the bloke couldn't do it.
Seriously. Some things were as simple as "we need this slider to go all the way up to 180% instead of 100%" on a lame dashboard and *kid. could. not. do. it.*.

In many cases he literally just gave up and copied the slak history into the AI prompt. No dice.

Bloke couldn't code a print('hello world') into a jupyter notebook cell, that's what i'm saying.
Apparently, he was "self taught", too. And was hired to "speed up the process of generating visual aids for usage in meetings and presentations". But then "the budget for this position was considered excessive" (meaning: shit results from a raw idea some executive crapped some day) and "the position was expanded to include the development of Business Inteligence Dashboards and Data Apps".

So now it is up to me (and my CRIMINALLY UNDERPAID team) to clean up his mess and maintain/fix/deprecate DOZENS of SHODDILY DESIGNED and MOSTLY USELESS but QUITE ACTIVE "data vis" PIECES OF SHIT.

Fuck "AI prompters", fucking snake oil script kiddies.

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tags: "[\"random\", \"why\", \"what\", \"rust\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-23 06:47:15
text:
wish AIs were good at rust, borrowing rules, and async 😫

is it possible to have a impl of async &mut self on something that's gonna thread and update its own data via Arc Mutex or whatever or not

stop making syntax errors

guide pls

nobody uses rust, I swear. or at least they just do basic bitch "beginner" apps. please. get with the times and actually do something meaningful that's not picture perfect theoretical exercises. how come no one's RNG tested every feature against every other feature? where's your chaos monkey. the world is chaos! get with the times!

it would be nice if I stick this on the instance as a method but it _might actually never work_ if I try that so I don't wanna spend 3 days wrangling with the code to figure that out when I have a perfectly good dangling independent helper function in a random package here. gosh darnit

also apparently the only way to get something out of a Arc Murex is to clone it. but the API / usability of the thing would be exactly the same whether it was wrapped in Arc Murex or not. so it's like. if it was in Arc Mutex and you wanna use it in other parts of your app that aren't using multithreading in any way, are you just changing all the function signatures to Arc Mutex or are you cloning to get it back out? uegh I don't even. what if I mutex lock and just put that in the signatures (can I even? because I've tried using weird intermediary objects as part of signatures and then I get in trouble there too cuz arbitrarily the answer is "no" because some generic system limitation)? why all of this

May as well learn hieroglyphics but with French/English grammar exception rules on the side. yo dawg we heard you hate human languages with all their exceptions so we made programming languages the same way


tags: "[\"random\", \"human\", \"cult\", \"jaguar\", \"passion\", \"logo\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-23 08:59:35
text:
https://youtube.com/watch/...

here we have a circle, smooth and inoffensive,
this will be the basis for your revolution
gravity is crucial, geomagnetism

everyone will see it, every demographic
men 18 to 30
college educated
women over 40
suicidal poets
fat midwestern fathers
kids with diabetes
pentecostal preachers
mothers under 20
interracial couples
atheist professors
goverment employees
xenophobes and racists
private aviators
everyone will see it, every demographic

new breed, guided evolution, instantly enlightened
there's no longer language, only recognition

color makes us hungry,
hungry makes us human

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tags: "[\"question\"]"
user_username: netikras
created: 2024-11-23 09:37:47
text:
Anyone tried eGPUs over thunderbolt? On Linux? Anything you could recommend?

I'd like to play around with ML for a bit


user_username: retoor
created: 2024-11-23 14:26:35
text:
My previous rant was still in my edit window while I wanted to create this random one and it was so bad, the effort of deleting it was even painful. Imagine reading it. You guys dodged a bullet like a Rust dev does with fun.

I was in my bed, just thinking about Rust people. Saying that Rust is saying that sex with a condom is great but we both know the truth and that you're only doing it because your environment like your parents and government (the Biden administration, fact) wants you to.

But while thinking this, I just found the real issue regarding declining child births in the west. Every time in history had it's issues, but we're doing fine. What changed that we don't have make those sweet kiddo's now? Well, we just don't have power outages anymore and we have the internet on a device with hours of battery to keep us entertained. We don't have to take the rewarding and exciting  risk of a C dev anymore if we're bored (great sex without a condom).

My solution: planned internet outages executed by the MIVD (better than the CIA, the MIVD can at least keep secret what they're doing, I'm sure you've never heard of this tough bastards). The effects will be very easy measurable in a span of few years. But it has to be executed in secret so people don't cheat by downloading a Netflix movie upfront. Netflix & Chill is a hoax, else we would have a baby boom by now or we're all Rust devs. 

Anyway, even if you're a Rust dev, admit that this is a great inharmful idea that could actually help.

I don't do jokes.

Phone is birth control, change my mind like I did yours.

You're welcome.

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: Nmeri17
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created: 2024-11-23 17:04:31
text:
I Used to scribble my thoughts on paper. It's haphazard yet handy. And even though I can't make corrections without crossing out or drawing arrows to transfer the reader to continuation of the thought on another page, I have this liberty to express myself and glance at a panoramic view before putting them in their final resting place –soft copy 

Maybe my thought process became more efficient but I no longer need to flesh things out with ink. Database designs, implementation logic. Everything goes to a special file I create on every project for odds and ends

Until today

I have something to think about. I will miss connecting the dots if they appear in fancy fonts. I need to gradually build upon each outline, pursuing it in an exploratory manner until its possibilities are exhausted. I will draw a conclusion from their character arcs

For some reason, I see parallels between this scenario and sql vs nosql. This is one of those extreme cases where structured data storage is not sufficient. I sincerely doubt nosql should be used as a main database, but instead an intermediary for an aggregator to treat each row/record as a unique blob, extract necessary information into a sql for the actual system to work with

Sql is more sane and recommended for when you know the exact end goal but need help arriving there. Today, I'm confused and need to weigh options. I need to actually cross things out, not press the back button. It's a bit of a stretch but if this were data, it feels like what nosql would excel at


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user_username: georgetesma5
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created: 2024-11-23 19:04:10
text:
The Path to Recovery: How Rapid Digital Recovery Restored My Bitcoin After a Misallocation

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user_username: susanderick
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created: 2024-11-23 19:24:56
text:
When Trust Becomes Deception: My Bitcoin Investment Saga and Resurrection Dealing with Salvage Asset Recovery

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As I logged in to check on my investment, I was met with the devastating realization that my account had been cleaned out, the balance reduced to zero. Panic and disbelief set in as I grappled with the harsh truth - the platform I had trusted had been nothing more than a sophisticated scam, designed to fleece unsuspecting investors like myself. With my funds vanished and no clear path forward, I felt utterly powerless and betrayed, my dreams of financial security shattered in an instant. The journey that followed was a rollercoaster of emotions, filled with uncertainty, frustration, and glimmers of hope when I was directed to Salvage Asset recovery. The Salvage methods were shrouded in mystery, and progress seemed painfully slow, but I clung to the belief that they would ultimately succeed. After what felt like an eternity of waiting and uncertainty, the Salvage finally announced a breakthrough – they had managed to trace the stolen Bitcoin and were in the process of recovering it, piece by piece. As the final pieces of the puzzle fell into place, I found myself on the precipice of a remarkable resurrection, my lost investment slowly but surely being restored to me. The sense of relief and gratitude I felt was palpable, a testament to the power of perseverance and the unwavering determination to right the wrongs that had been done. This harrowing ordeal had taught me a valuable lesson about the importance of trust and the consequences of placing it in the wrong hands, but it had also shown me the remarkable resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity. You can reach out to  Salvage Asset  recovery through WhatsApp-----.+ 1 8 4 7 6 5 4 7 0 9 6 
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# comments

user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-07 17:48:01
body:
I wager a lot during work too and often lose. Why keep doing it? Winning wasn't the target, it's to motivate and I enjoy the competition. Winning is not the goal, competition is.

So, there's a small chance that he just got you to work hard. But hey, you have three points! Good for you :p You winner! 😁

How's puf?


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-07 17:48:38
body:
Sounds like you need a light on your bike.  Was that dead too?

When I was a kid we had literal generators we attached to the wheel to power lights on our bikes.  With modern tech this should be a lot more efficient now.  The same generator now would power LED lights a lot better than back then.


body: Don't become an edgelord. Cum instead. *knee slap*
user_username: Ranchonyx
created: 2024-11-07 18:23:45
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-07 18:30:15
body:
Getting the most comments is a nice goal. Flame war is the best. One flame war started with only posting the word "rust". Pissing off so much people with one word, that's the magic. But the biggest one was about calling web developers not real developers and that they don't have what it takes. This was @aviophile. Didn't see him for long. The web devs won? For work, also do mainly web development but I don't get mad at all because one has such opinion. Web projects are often big and have their own complexity making it real development. Someone who says not is wrong, so meh.

I tried to start a war by saying that rust devs can't learn C, but it seems that rust devs are relaxed people and do not want to learn it anyway. Way too dangerous.

See how much time ostream spends on creating flames. It's not easy, it's an art


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-07 18:49:46
body:
@Demolishun I said my light died. I have a a generator, it's called a dynamo, and you're right. I should buy a led one that works on dynamo


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-07 18:50:53
body:
@lorentz buy another light and pretend to be an airplane. You will scare people. But you live in city, there is always light. I did often not even use bicycle light in city, just forgot it.

My parents also live in middle of nowhere and it does have lights. They even replaced the road there recently. Normally netherlands maintains the outskirts well too. Maybe it's different per province


user_username: cafecortado
created: 2024-11-07 19:11:09
body:
@retoor the other day I've seen a bike with one red light and one green light, so maybe pretending to be a boat

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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-07 19:14:50
body:
Hmm, 1.700 isn't that high, I have 4***'.for a year it's ok I guess.

He's wrong. That script literally is made to cheat, it's the biggest way of cheating ever if you want to get a job that way. Also, what's in the commits, if people look a little bit, they will see the fake ones. You need an auto refactorer and let it commit over existing code or so.

Do not have respect for people doing that


body: Might be something to do with not wanting to anger the lithium ion gods.
user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-07 19:16:11
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user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-07 19:19:36
body:
@retoor in the center. everywhere else there's light enough to tell where the road is supposed to be, but not to assert that it's actually a road and not a canal full of gravel with yellow-striped asphalt slabs resting on top


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-07 19:24:52
body:
@donkulator I avoid lithium anyway. I should have it as medication but after I fight I got alternative that was worse for a long while but now it's ok. Lithium can poison you if you're not frequent enough. It happened to my mother for same issue so no way


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-07 19:28:22
body:
@Demolishun if you want to see information about such bankers and how fractal banking works? Check the anonymous official channel, new videos. It's conspiracy, they connect some weird ditch, but it contains a lot of facts as well. That's the thing with such videos. Many facts you can just check, but then the dots they connect.. Bit crazy but enjoyable


user_username: galena
created: 2024-11-07 19:38:25
body:
@Demolishun I can help with that! I have some banks around the block with years of experience. Especially from 85 years ago.

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user_username: Hazarth
created: 2024-11-07 20:03:25
body:
Honestly, if someone wants to hire me based on some graph from a proprietary service owned by microsoft that I don't even use anymore, that's on them...

If they asked me I'd tell them that I'm using a self hosted git service for privacy and traffic reasons.

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body: Okay, I learned something:
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-07 20:16:48
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body: .
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-07 20:17:32
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user_username: devRancid
created: 2024-11-07 20:50:39
body:
Phillips/Slotted/Hex belong in the trash
Pozidriv is a bit better but most ppl damage it with a Phillips screwdriver because "it looks the same"
Torx is superior to all but very rarely used for some reason

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user_username: Root
created: 2024-11-07 21:33:15
body:
I should probably use something like this.

I don’t have time to work on personal projects anymore, and I’m currently only committing to gitlab (and have been for quite awhile), so I’m getting no commits at all.  Probably why I’ve been getting almost no application responses.

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user_username: nemetepst
created: 2024-11-07 21:50:43
body:
Had the same experience many times, all I can say is who ever forced this decision is fucking retarded if they can't imagine a scenario where you really need a flashlight. 

Anyway, a "fix" to this is: Always have a white picture saved on your phone and then just max the brightness... it's stupid - but it gets you just enough light to see something

I hate that this is the solution... we live in a word filled with retarded idiotic morons and this is putting it nicely

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body: These aren't even the only crosshead types.
user_username: electrineer
created: 2024-11-07 23:09:14
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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-08 00:55:11
body:
So my aunt, when I was a kid, was trying to grow mold on her bread in her kitchen.  It was rye IIRC.  I learned later that people can grow LSD on rye bread.  She died really young.  I have to wonder if this is why.  My mom was well grounded.  My aunt, who is my mom's twin, was not.  She had a bad marriage and just seemed kinda messed up after that.  Sometimes when I hear about bread I think about my aunt trying to grow LSD.


user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-08 01:28:41
body:
@Demolishun My wife, God rest her soul, grew magic mushrooms in large plastic bags when she was studying chemistry in college. I'm not sure how she did it. Something about moisture. Possibly cow shit too, but she never mentioned that part. Anyway, the harvest was magnificent.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 01:37:40
body:
I had today a malloc with a wrong size. That's noob shit too. Doesn't happen since long time.

Or a while ago, I had an object (struct representing a js object), requested a property value from it. When i was done, i free' it. But that property was just still part of that object, so the code further below free'd the whole object and needed that property too. So I got double free. Bit sad, I did make all properties managed by the object for a reason, to free in a normal way. That means, if a string is set for example, i duplicate the string and don't use the pointer. It's in theory slow, in practice, meh. It does give you some memory safety so


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 01:46:37
body:
@Demolishun did checked it toi be sure but its nearly impossible to die on LSD. It requires way more than you would normally do to trip on. 

@Liebranca they're easy to grow. in theory. So easy, they will even give you a new box ( of 30 euros) if they fail. I tried two times, two times failure. Those grow boxes have an expiry date, that's why it is expensive to sell it, a lot has to be thrown away. My theory is that I just got expired boxes. It was long ago, didn't check it back then. But i tried 8 fresh ones before they became illegal. Now only legal if you grow yourself. Next item on the list to grow is ephedra, found a way to get it


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 01:50:46
body:
What does "EDC" mean? Chatgpt says:

"Going crazy in the EDC" usually means fully immersing oneself in the experience of the Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC)'

Good that i read this topic again, I have a mini light i can store in my coat with a huge beam. Magic stuff. Bought it for two euro


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-08 01:59:58
body:
@retoor I don't think she died from that.  It was just the whole weirdness and not taking care of herself.  I think the LSD stuff was just the stuff I noticed as a kid.  It took my mom another 40 years to die after that.


user_username: kobenz
created: 2024-11-08 05:05:22
body:
Snippets, for shit like that I've got snippets and more snippets so I don't need to reinvent the wheel more than once


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-08 05:07:39
body:
@Demolishun oh ok so she just went crazy

I think it happens if someone has some kind of deficiency and their body can't keep up with the neurogenesis the drugs are asking the body to be able to grow

like apparently certain forms of schizophrenia are cured by high dose b3 or by giving people iodine. I had a friend from childhood, my best friend, and in adulthood she went crazy... psychosis unspecified. she was thrown around the Canadian medical system and I don't know what happened to her. she was paranoid of her family and they were pretty mean to her, but eventually she became paranoid of even me and I haven't spoken to her in years, if she's even still out there


user_username: kobenz
created: 2024-11-08 05:08:40
body:
Ooooh dick whipping? Me likes dick whipping
--
as if that ever mattered since when it was higher I was actually a hobo

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user_username: Jwe0619
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-08 05:44:30
body:
@retoor don't worry, I docker almost everything! This was however a VPN client issue, so kind of want to do it on the host level.


user_username: dissolvedgirl
created: 2024-11-08 06:07:46
body:
@retoor Every Day Carry. 

I have torches all over my house, and a handy headlamp too. I was PTSD'ed into it, we had massive power outages in my country lol.

Shit, reminds me, I should put one in my vehicle... I don't cycle, I'll get robbed haha.

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user_username: dissolvedgirl
created: 2024-11-08 06:11:33
body:
@Hazarth yup, totally asinine to hire someone based on that.

My Github looks like a desert, I haven't really worked on my personal stuff in a while. 

my organisation profile looks waaay different, but it's private, so...

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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 06:13:34
body:
@dissolvedgirl getting robbed here is the last thing i would be afraid off. I never lock the house even, also i don't lock bicycle in village center. I'm surrounded by nice christian people and average looking cows. It's a paradise


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-08 06:58:06
body:
communists are the most vicious people

watching that debate they put Joe Biden into vs trump was just horrific. they're truly vicious people. how could you do that to an old man. it was disgusting

I always heard they were vicious, I've never seen it before. now I see it. it's disturbing


body: ala immigrants, they never cared, it was just convenient
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-08 07:00:16
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user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-08 07:34:42
body:
@jestdotty lmao, they absolutely went from protesting deportations to being all for it. Like what?

The point is, from what I can gather, these schmucks are considered "left" in the US, but the shit they're pulling disproves it -- the lie has been conclusively exposed, once and for all. Election drama is always dull and stupid, but this time man, this time we're stacking screenshots to the ceiling. Accountability police going to be busy over the next few years.

But you know what I think should happen? An *actual* radical swing to the left. None of that liberal bullshit, I'm talking AK-47 and Che Guevara up in this bitch. Doing it for real. Then we can point at their elected figurehead and say THAT is a fucking communist.

Until then, it's just nazis vs rainbow nazis.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-08 08:53:24
body:
@Liebranca hmmm idk what actual left means, but I don't think going that way would be all that great from the images you're painting

wonder how all that squares with like, god and your faith and you saying never to do magic because demons always come out. is it demonic to wanna kill people? unknown

the other day I found out "we are all born sinful" didn't actually come from Jesus, it was from the Hebrew Bible. and in other religions and from actual quotes of Jesus everybody regards children as pure of soul. so someone wrote some incorrect shit in there to put s chip into newly born souls so they wouldn't have the confidence to defend themselves I guess


body: You can also use single file components, not limited to multi-file structure.
user_username: cb219
created: 2024-11-08 08:06:08
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user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 09:56:30
body:
@jestdotty 

> watching that debate they put Joe Biden into vs trump was just horrific.

You're always the funniest jestie. Did you know that debate had been personally ordered by stalin himself?


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 10:01:59
body:
@Liebranca

There is no such thing as "left" and "right". The place people sat in the the parliement in 1789 shouldn't not guide our political thinking. 

Liberals have nothing to do with socialists. American liberals don't care about violence and oppression. They just want not to have to fight against it, so they externalize it to the middle east. 

They can take a posture against genocide if it makes them feel good, but they will draw the line if it hurts the nasdaq. Those bombs are not gonna sell themselves.


user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-08 10:06:41
body:
@jestdotty I'm not left-wing myself, so you could argue that I don't know what "left" means either. Go figure. But anyhoo, I'm joking -- obviously I don't support revolutionary insurrections.

Or do I? ;>

As for your question: look up the french revolution -- absolute fucking bloodbath. Who's condeming that? Nobody. Some even celebrate it. Is it evil to execute citizen Louis Capet by guillotine? You tell me.

So *when* is killing evil? That's the question. And since I've already mentioned France, maybe look into what the french did in Algeria.

What do I believe? Surah el Hajj verse 39.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 10:19:40
body:
@Liebranca the french revolution is a tough one. Coz let's be honest, the king had one head too much and deserved it. It was the rise out of feudality and the proof that people could topple the system. They did outlaw slavery (in france itself irrc) and they did a lot of good imho.

On the other hand, it got coopted by the bourgeois /  city people, and they did awful shit. Especially to the peasantry, where things were different than in cities and people were still very attached to religion. 

It was also the start of the colonial empire and the idea that the metropolis was more civilized than the rest of the world still living under feudality. 

So yeah, nuanced result there.


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-08 12:13:50
body:
@antigermgerm peasants everywhere...

Let's see where this discussion is going.

For one is an immigrant a hard working person who speak the country's language within month. For others it is a person that blast music on speakers in trains, busses and burn cars in the weekend...

Here in the city, and you go to a local grocery store. It is very rare to hear people speak the native language of this country. That is just sad.

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user_username: dissolvedgirl
created: 2024-11-08 12:53:55
body:
@cb219 I noticed that yes! However this current codebase doesn't use that style, and I think the other devs will be quite upset if I fuck with their structure :D


user_username: dissolvedgirl
created: 2024-11-08 13:02:23
body:
Saw a post of a woman saying she's gonna buy a Glock and, at night, shoot White dudes she encounters. 

Bizarre how the type of person saying this is most likely one that opposes the lawful ownership of firearms. Lmao. She'll probably buy the smallest one too :D

She then, will probably be shot first in self defence. Not sure about other countries where people can own firearms, but in mine you are legally entitled to use lethal force to defend your own life or that of another if an attack warrants it and is about to begin or has already begun.

Also, it is stupid to want to shoot people at night, target acquisition is incredibly difficult in low light conditions even if you have night sights on your handgun. I've done a night shooting competition and it's HARD.


user_username: PappyHans
created: 2024-11-08 13:27:44
body:
Possible sources of data leaks into 3rd party:

- email providers used to send order confirmation emails 
- CRM tools 
- Less likely but payment providers and access to such
- Compromised account credentials
- Leaking customer and order data into Analytics tools
- Malware on employee machines 

I would start from compromised credentials first and look at unusual account activity to rule out the worst case scenario

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user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-08 13:50:02
body:
@Grumm Yeah, people attach weird ass connotations to moving from one country to another, as if that made one a kind of mystical "other" or some shit. Weirds me out.

No, I just find it remarkable how the political block most notorious for utilizing "minority" as a rhetorical resource was this fucking quick to scapegoat. Strikes me as all around messed up.

@dissolvedgirl From "guns kill people"  to "I KILL PEOPLE WITH GUNS"!

It's like poetry, it rhymes. Or something. It's a nice example of what I'm saying alright, people doing 180º like that in a fraction of a second. Just wild.

Never tried aiming in the dark but it sounds tough, more so if it's not in a city. I used to crawl through camp trying to suprise the guy who stood watch on the hill when I was in the boyscouts. In my defense I was like seven, and we were playing a game. Anyway, he always spotted me, but only when I got close, and I'm a pretty lousy sneak.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 13:56:48
body:
@Grumm the native language of what? I'm waloon, my native language is extinct. Now everybody speaks fucking french because of fucking french immigrants. Fucking hell invaders should go back to their goddamn country I fully agree with that.

Ship the germans, brits and other francks east where they came from. Give europe back to its native celtic population.

Same thing with america and canada and all the brits and germ. Ship them back and give it back to the first nations.


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-08 14:14:42
body:
@antigermgerm Hmm, but do we want all the American's back to their origin ? I hope there aren't to many Belgian people there. But UK and France will have a big problem when millions are coming back xD

@Liebranca it is also terrifying. And now there is a president who has power to do crazy shit (based on his speeches) 

Let me start digging a hole with internet and see you all in 20 years...

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user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-08 14:32:52
body:
It's both funny and frightening how removed from reality some of these far lefties really are

Everything they accuse you of, they are doing themselves

Everything they say is the opposite of reality


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 14:39:49
body:
@12bitfloat Whereas you sir are always 100% right. Everything you say is full of wisdom and intelligence. Your worldview is clear as the biggest diamond. It's a good thing the supreme leader is there to guide the world and defend us against hollywood pedophiles innit?


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-08 14:42:33
body:
@antigermgerm you are going to far back I think... In the end, we all came from the same water and fish. (Or is this already to unbelievable and not true because of that one true god) I don't want to offend people here (⊙ˍ⊙)

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user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 14:44:15
body:
@Grumm exactly. I'm a sailor. We should leave land and live upon the water like jesus. 

My grand grandpa used to live 10 months a year fishing ashore of newfoundland.


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2024-11-08 14:44:41
body:
I think it's just psychological manipulation by phone manufacturers. 

The battery gauges in cellphones are manipulated in a way to please our small monkey brains. 

Battery charge and discharge is not linear, and if your gauge weren't manipulated, that last 4% would last 20 times more than the first 4%.

But since it's manipulated to show in a more linear way, it's likely the phone was on its last legs for real. 

The arbitrary prohibition on the torch? Probably some random crapple-like decision to justify some retarded marketing point about battery life...

I mean, my lineage OS displays real battery charge and I've had the last 1% last for more than one hour.

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user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-08 14:53:47
body:
@antigermgerm Not everything I say is correct, I also suffer from bias like everyone else

The difference is, I base my ideas on reality, so when they are wrong they are at least not THAT wrong

These people's ideas aren't even connected to reality, so they are just wrong by default


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 14:55:46
body:
@12bitfloat there's a whole debate about machiavelism you know. Realism is the cause of a lot of suffering.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-08 14:56:32
body:
@antigermgerm We've already argued and I've poked huge logical holes into a lot of your arguments, so I'd say I'm not entirely incorrect


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 14:59:32
body:
@12bitfloat you get the difference between real life events and me rambling on an obscure website, yes? Nobody's gonna kill germans, quit whining.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-08 14:59:36
body:
@antigermgerm Man, I'd like a waffle right now. With sugar and cinnamon and a little bit of nutella 😋


body: @12bitfloat nutella??????????
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 15:00:56
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user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 15:20:15
body:
@12bitfloat on pancakes. Waffles must be consumed alone to get all the flavour from the waffles.

My dad used to be a baker. 

Anyway you do you


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-08 15:22:19
body:
@CoreFusionX The limits can usually be switched off in the battery power usage settings, I didn't want to be a smart ass and point it out after such a good rant lol


body: @bazmd they don't trust us neither these days
user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 15:44:36
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 15:49:14
body:
@bazmd I don't see such stuff but some nice stats tho. It's a Samsung. S10 or s20? I dunno. Nearly 2 years old, refurbished thingy. I don't buy new hardware anymore


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 15:55:05
body:
Would be nice if exactly that 4% is still alive. Big chance, covid just 'killed' a view. Traumatizing bullshit period. Covid period and people's behavior was my biggest dissapointment in humanity since I was very positive about average person. During that period, I hated everyone. Back then, everyone was a real nazi


user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-08 16:19:43
body:
@Grumm Oh, absolutely, don't get me wrong: I know the man is bad news. He attempted a coup, as I recall. Shouldn't he be in jail?

But I'm a foreigner, and I don't expect changes to US foreign policy; I've never seen it happen. My opinion on every one of their presidents that were elected in my lifetime, based on how they meddled, destabilized and of course bombed other countries, is roughly equivalent.

People *within* the US are frightened of having to live through a mere microscopic fraction of what their government has historically inflicted on other nations. As to how this fear translates to spewing hateful vile towards immigrants for not sucking their cock hard enough, eh, let's leave that one as an exercise.

PS: everything and everyone originating from a single point is consistent with both abrahamic teaching and what I understand is the scientific consensus. By both accounts, everyone is related if we go far back enough in time.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 16:31:49
body:
@retoor it was the best. I was getting high and playing videogames and going to the beach all the time. Not talking to people did wonder for my mental health. It was so peaceful.

I wish there's another covid


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 16:35:26
body:
@Liebranca when my mum's dad went to the hospital for the last time, the last thing he saw on tv was the plant he built in bassorah still standing among the ruins from the american bombing.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-08 16:35:36
body:
@antigermgerm Bruh you were just saying you don't put anything on there

I feel betrayed and lied to


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 16:50:07
body:
@12bitfloat nah the cinnamon is IN the waffle. In the dough. And the sugar too so it's caramelized alltogether.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 17:20:19
body:
Inside job indeed, 3rd party - consider to host an own open source solution for things like analytics and stuff, own email send system... And if it then still leaks - it has to be someone from inside. But it's not that someone can see an invoice by putting the number in some url somewhere? Check what urls are frequently called. Suspicious user accounts on server? Check ps aux for stuff you don't know


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 17:32:11
body:
@retoor in the browser? Download the actual file plz :s 

I lost lappy :'( hours of work. I think some bitch took it from backpack.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-08 17:35:22
body:
Scammers are such pieces of shits.  Strategic nukes are a possible solution.  I don't know enough to help.  I hope you fucking nail the bastards.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 17:40:08
body:
@antigermgerm will save and send back. Sad from your laptop, since you're self employed, extra fuck. What laptop will you buy? I decided that x270 is getting too old. I don't know alternative to buy.. They're all bigger afaik. Also, I like exactly this design / thickness. Decent keys, not those weak keys they have on new laptops. I want to press something


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 17:43:13
body:
@retoor I still had a spare one. I didn't loose anything but a few hours of work for real work.

And months and months of work on my music. It sucks ass and ive been depressed and had a fight with gf and im burned out. 

I needs hols I'm not on drugz


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 17:44:21
body:
@retoor honestly I think my next purchase will be a real computer. You remember the ones we used to have in little boxes with CD player and shit? 

I have a spare hdd and ram so I could build one for cheap


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 17:57:01
body:
Nah but fr, the thing with people like you or jestdotty or even retoor is that they are politically oriented. 

I piss off everyone. Even nihilists like @iii hates me.

The trick is to call everybody retarded.


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-08 17:59:47
body:
@retoor Taxes are paying for this in Europe. That sounds like a perfectly working business model. At least it would be used for something useful for once.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-08 18:33:54
body:
I did get this shit working today.  But I am finding that the standard for modbus is not followed, or my library I am using for communication is hiding implementation details.  The data in a register (16 bits) is supposed to be big endian.  What I am getting is little endian.  I looked through the source code and I can't see anywhere where they interpret the byte order at all.  Perhaps it is hidden somewhere I cannot find it.  I also tested with a perl library and it is returning little endian words.  I am trying to create a generic interface so I added a byte endianess parameter in case we end up with devices that do it differently.  Everything I am reading is saying manufacturers will just do it how they want anyway.  Expecting everyone to just fix it in software.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-08 19:07:59
body:
@retoor I'm the same, very HI-TEC but low-key on my own phone. I usually install apps manually if I need it, there are apps I've seen people use for the light feature that have ads, that's absolutely insane to me lol one of the Easiest apps you can build, I wonder if anyone has ever paid for a torch app?


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-08 19:50:06
body:
I think it is more than that.  There are 15 million missing voters from this last election.  That could explain where they went.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 19:59:48
body:
@Tounai maybe the screen reader is fine for those people. What should AI add? How can it optimize a screen reader?


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-08 20:12:05
body:
@retoor It requires developers to make applications in a way that they are readable by screen readers which is remotely impossible nowadays, long, boring to do and adds very little value to the product.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 20:12:15
body:
@antigermgerm I write rewrite stuff that I've already done in no time. Special memory for that, good in remembering source.

Sad that it's going so bad. How bad is the fight? Taking days off costs you sadly directly money so not really an option huh. I do not see many benefits about being self employed so far.

How is no drugz? You want to quit? 

What is hols?

Normal desktop with a k120 is great and cheap. I wouldn't have room for it. I'm working at living room / kitchen table. Not gonna put a computer under that.

If your spare drive is hdd and not ssd, I would not use it at all. Performance of it during general usage is very noticeable


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 20:39:22
body:
@Tounai ah, so AI could be a screenreader that works on non optimized applications. Would be nice and I think AI can already determine what buttons / sections on screen are. Nothing is stopping you for making it


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 20:44:11
body:
@bazmd Imagine paying monthly for a torch app. A while ago I found out that I had a subscription of an offline pdf scanner app. It was freaking 5 euro. Subscription must happen quite easy these days


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-08 21:00:28
body:
@Tounai Very few people would use a screen narrator, it would be more viable to develop a specialist device for disabled people and that should be developed by large companies, let them pull their weight for awhile. instead of trying to be tyrants.

What do you mean by "enforced by the EU"?


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-08 21:05:04
body:
@Grumm the origin, of what we know about, was aboriginals over 50K years ago in the Americas.  The Asians came in and wiped all of them out like 7K years ago.  So native Americans were not original.  Possibly even the aboriginals were not original.  Before that was probably some aliens on vacation.  Then this place, the Earth, became a shit hole.  Then they started probing the shit outta us!


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-08 22:11:44
body:
hospitals got money for every person who died of COVID?

so suddenly bike accidents meant you died of COVID

because the PCR test has a 70% false positive rate lol


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-08 23:14:59
body:
probably some plugin

I'd omit some customers from some plugins, then narrow it down based on which get compromised. then you can sue them!


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-08 23:18:45
body:
but also in UK they were murdering people with remdesivir (on purpose, sometimes doctors they targeted)

and ventilators in USA. who knows what else


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-08 22:20:52
body:
@jestdotty I saw somewhere that only 3% of people who died that year died OF covid.  The rest died WITH covid, but died of other comorbidities.  Also, flu disappeared from the statistics that year.  Hospitals got major kickbacks.  Especially for ventilator use.  

It was a major numbers game to defraud the public.,


user_username: spongessuck
created: 2024-11-08 23:33:54
body:
Sucks for them, I guess. I wouldn't do it unless they sign a new contract and pay at least triple. You got them by the balls now.

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user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-08 23:34:46
body:
@Demolishun and I got banned from reddit by mentioning vitamin c and vitamin d

vitamin c improved outcomes by 70% lmao

and the only people dying of COVID seemed to be vitamin d deficient

seriously these people murdered so many people. it's gross. quickest way to lose faith in humanity. I thought humans were alright before then. what a wild fucking time

there was a manager I liked at a former workplace and he was black. I think he died. fucked up. all he would've needed was vitamin d.


user_username: Hazarth
created: 2024-11-09 00:28:44
body:
We are not in an "AI" era... We're in an ai hype train maybe, but nothing era defining happened yet. AI era will happen when everything is actually done by AI.

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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-09 00:53:11
body:
@jestdotty people were on their death bed.  People hid ivermectin inside of things to sneak them into the hospital.  The people who got it usually recovered within 24 to 48 hours.  What kind of fucked up world requires people to sneak life saving remedies into a fucking hospital?


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-09 00:57:06
body:
@jestdotty I would like to apologize on behalf of the USA to Canada.  Apparently a whole segment of mentally ill people are now planning on going to Canada.  I especially apologize for the POS celebrities that promised to go there.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 01:57:25
body:
@Demolishun ivermectin is still banned up here in Canada

kicker is there's chance it would fix my issues


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-09 00:58:42
body:
@jestdotty during the whole pandemic you could have gone into mexico and bought it off the shelf.  They had it at airports in pill form.  Probably still can.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 01:58:57
body:
@Demolishun hahaha yeah been seeing that. next year we have elections and if they come up here they'll get retraumatized because our conservative guy will win cuz the liberals tanked their reputations so badly it is unknown if they will recover in the next decade


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 02:03:07
body:
@Demolishun my bf lives near the Mexican border. maybe I can get him to buy me some and send it in an unmarked package I guess

but honestly I didn't beeline for it because it was like 1 of 30 potential solutions and the 30 didn't work

it shouldn't be banned in the first place. just fucked up shit

I was googling if I had it right and the only thing that comes up is a news story about undercover journalists trying to figure out how Canadians were trying to get ivermectin in 2022, except the article just stops and doesn't disclose. does mention it's "anti vaxxers" that are doing it. I took your damned vaccine! that's why I'm looking for it!

these people are so gross


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-09 01:08:09
body:
@jestdotty I don't people know about how evil TPTB are.  Bill Gates has been doing vaccines for decades.  He was instrumental in creating and distributing the Brucellosis for brazil.  There was an additive to the transport agent that caused sterility in women.  This made 50% of the child bearing aged women in Brazil sterile.  The Catholic church caught them doing it again in Africa.  The media just made fun of the church.  Guess who made a shit ton of money off of vaccines during the pandemic?  Bill Gates.  

People think he is evil for his company Microsoft.  This dude is on a completely different level of evil.


user_username: magicMirror
created: 2024-11-09 01:11:58
body:
Upon reading the license, you will feel sorry for having red it. Enforced by lawyer monkeys, wearing banana suits, while eating pizza.

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body: Wait until you run into rxjs subscription, nginit, and input racing condition bs
user_username: h3rp1d3v
created: 2024-11-09 08:55:51
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 09:46:47
body:
I can too, I never used the "not for me" option. My theory is that that button smashing doesn't work by default since it's not in api or it will disable your down vote functionallity if you abuse it. If course you use the "not for me" button, freedom is speech b*ch


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 09:51:39
body:
In reality, I think client must have to change the MVP to make client still happy. There's nothing else you can't do. Extra team members on short term cost time.

Even when it's not in contract, clients dick have to be sucked often, else you're out of business in no time.

Yh, disfunctional indeed 😁


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 09:56:54
body:
@chatgpt with what open source software license do you allow everything as long your name is mentioned?


user_username: chatgpt
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created: 2024-11-09 09:57:21
body:
@retoor
The open source software license that allows everything as long as the creator's name is mentioned is the CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) license. This license allows others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the work created by the original author, as long as proper attribution is given.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-09 10:42:02
body:
Forgot there was a down vote button, there's nothing really worth using it for and I wouldn't be bothered with childish button behaviour. Sometimes I hit like, sometimes I don't.

I really sleep well at night! :D


user_username: PappyHans
created: 2024-11-09 10:45:41
body:
There is a lot of spammers lately. I can downvote the spam messages and they disappear from my threads, not sure if its just me that can’t see them once downvoted or they disappear for everyone else as well.

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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 11:26:52
body:
@SidTheITGuy Btw, this is a major flex. Even I won't flex like that. You should be ashamed of yourself


user_username: PappyHans
created: 2024-11-09 12:08:12
body:
@retoor hm I can downvote a spam post and it would disappear for me with just my -1 vote. But who knows. Not sure what’s with the surge of SPAM posts lately. Very annoying

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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 12:29:16
body:
@netikras the amount of spam must be huge since everyone downvotes but they keep showing up.

Edit: 11 messages today. You can see them in the day overview


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-09 13:02:47
body:
@netikras Everyone must do a great job down voting the spam bots, because by the time I get here they're gone. But I'll keep that in mind.

Who you gonna call?

SPAMBUSTERS!!


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2024-11-09 13:42:29
body:
It is enforced all wrong. After all, how much money do I waste on a feature for naught point zero zero etc. one percent of my customer base?

How would enforcement really work? Well, require an open API. All information there. And it must be free to use for everyone who uses this API to add accessibility. 

Because accessibility is not the same. It is different for someone who has Parkinson to someone who is blind to someone who is dyslexic. That allows for special versions and companies specialized into making other products accessible, allows for a better interconnected web and frees me, the company owner, from caring about the .0000001% of customer base when I wouldn't even think it is economical to add something to my web app just because 1% of my users want it.

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user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-09 14:57:01
body:
I've read through it. They should probably stop with all this crazy regulatory nonsense before other European countries leave the union lol

Exceptions:

"If meeting the EAA requirements would impose a “disproportionate burden” on a business, and if it can demonstrate that compliance is not reasonably possible, an exception may apply. Additionally, microenterprises are exempt from these requirements."

Source:businessdisabilityforum.org.uk


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 15:43:20
body:
That's not drugs to blame, there's smth going on with with that it happened. I did never smth that gave me broblems drunk or high. I remain quite the same. You're doing something bad under influence? It was just you. No excuse


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 15:47:06
body:
@bazmd I always see them, but I check very often, it's a kinda habit. I do it everytime when smoking at least and that's around every two hour or so


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 15:52:25
body:
Now they're 13 of them. How do they invent all those texts? They did it before AI. And for texts like that you have to self host I guess


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 18:48:23
body:
@Tounai fine, if you quit French fries. I just do not believe they're as dangerous as we get brainwashed with. They consider sitting as unhealthy these days. On dutch TV in most popular program they recently said that XTC shouldn't be a hard drug and that's it not so harmful. I'm not that retarted to even believe that. Your body is literally refusing to take it and that's why it gets stuck in your throat many times. I trust my body regarding that regardless what scientists say. 

Drugs are like drinking and smoking, harmful if you do too much. Also, my medication is prolly way more harmful than many drugs


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-09 19:00:23
body:
@retoor I don’t do French fries, I try to keep my shape. Some drugs are probably not that dangerous, but most of them are addictive, and sometimes can trigger crazy reaction. The one mentioned in this topic can happen with basic weed. 
Anyway, the issue is that drugs is fuelling criminality in Europe and not buying is the step towards starving those criminals.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 19:40:48
body:
@Tounai the thing that happened in this topic can be done by basic weed indeed, but that doesn't make you automatically murdering. Drugs maybe illegal, but you know it's resistant against inflation? They're same price as ten years ago. That's great, keep it illegal. I know everything you're gonna say about this subject because it's literally like that in the newspaper. Ever thought about people who just like it and their rights? They just have to stop doing smth they like because some far from bed stuff? What did you ever give up what you like for the sake of society? Also, quitting drugs so it dissappears is as hopeless as quit eating meat. Those three people not doing it anymore doesn't matter at all


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 19:44:09
body:
@atheist I wanted to say opposites regarding criminality 😂 if you would consider cocaïne natural, they do a lot violence not seen at the xtc / amphetamine / designer scene


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 19:46:00
body:
@Tounai stop buying drugs to resolve criminality is like stop buying houses solves the housing crysis. Just don't take a home! Problem solved! You don't have what you want, oh well - says the guy that didn't suffer about it


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-09 19:48:17
body:
@retoor I used to share your opinion at 100%, so I get you. Now I am not even for legalisation. I am for total war against drugs traffickers. 
Now, you are obviously looking for excuses to continue feeding the beast of traffics. Do it with the knowledge that it probably cause killings in your country aside from other bad things.


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-09 19:52:52
body:
@retoor now is that the solution? Probably not. The solution requires several helicopters and machine guns


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-09 20:17:44
body:
@Tounai we have elected officials in the USA working for the drug cartels.  Yet the federal government is considering death penalty for drug dealers.  It is going to get really weird next few years.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 20:27:54
body:
@Demolishun I do not like death penalty

@Tounai I'm not for legalization either, because I think it will attract more drug users because people think it's ok. I do not think it's as harmful as portrayed - but still harmful. Look what happened in America when they started to allow drugs. Our weed system works very well. Most people don't do weed. Fine, but I don't think it will go that way with other drugs. It's very dangerous to change the situation and the drug use currently is not that dramatic in sense of giving problems. We export most of it


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-09 20:42:56
body:
@retoor 

Jail for life will do in Europe. 
If we speak specifically about weed and a few others, no, it’s not that harmful. But it’s an entry point. 
And if you take it at the society level, yes it’s dangerous. I mean, France is a mess because of this.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 21:19:04
body:
@Tounai for life here is 20 year or so. I think it's ok.

It's entry point indeed. I just hope they're able to prevent fentanyl comming here. Worried about that. Since getting drugs here is literally easier and faster than the pizza delivery guy (it's easier because we don't have one) it's a miracle we don't have it yet. It's obviously big business and they prolly will sell it if they get hands on it. Chrystal meth is also found a lot in Netherlands recently, that's also not very good. I personally know no one who does it. Currently we have 3mmc pandemic. It was legal, got out of control for way, way to long. And now everyone does it. People even stopped using cocaïne because of it, because it's cheaper AND gives a better feeling. It's also very hard to quit it


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 21:33:46
body:
@PappyHans if you downvote it'll be for you only but if 2 down vote it'll be for everyone and the post gets hidden unless you have a direct link to it or go to the profile of the poster

for comments I guess they just plain disappear

for downvoting comments if it's only you I don't think it hides it until it gets -2 and then the comment I think gets deleted? cuz you can't find it on profiles or anything. unsure if the user who got downvoted get permanent negative score either (if user A upvotes user B, and then user A deletes their account, used B's total score then decreases by all the user A's upvotes for them. similarly if you delete your own comments and they had upvotes your score will go down)

I see accounts with negative total score so being downvoted must degrade your score in some way, but downvotes are harder to track to know how that system works

I guess I could get a downvoted comment and try to test but I'm lazy


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 21:35:54
body:
@Demolishun lensflare and tosensei made me lose mine

I don't think I've ever downvoted you. you just post cheesy jokes, which is hardly going to be aggravating. then again I guess some people can't handle humour which is pretty wild and surprising. cheesy humour is too much for them  lmao? how? 🤣


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-09 21:37:09
body:
@jestdotty I joke about trolling.  I just don't think I have what it takes to be an edge lord.  ostream is the king of that.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 21:38:31
body:
I've gotten downvoted on some occasions but I think by this point people got used to me. people just dislike my opinions or sometimes really get triggered by something I say so target me for a while (and interestingly enough seem to not be cognizant of why they're exactly mad at me which is kind of funny), but generally most humans tire themselves out eventually and everything goes back to peaceful


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 21:40:25
body:
ostream is just confused and throws his confusion on others. he wants validation / help for his confusion I think


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 21:45:48
body:
accessibility would make sense if it was something like, "if you have a user and they want accomodations they can contact you about accomodations for them and you should make reasonable accomodations"

but out of the gate requiring everyone is really labour intensive and daunting

these people are self destructive on purpose though. that's the goal. they wanna mire people in irrelevant problems so that they can't focus on what really matters. they wanna give people useless work so that everyone feels like what they do is irrelevant, meaningless. then they usher in communism, which is actually gonna be more of the same useless system that further alienates people and mires them in even more rules that don't make sense and nobody wants. and this is the goal, the goal is to tangle people in useless rules and drain them of their spirit, will to live, on purpose

accomodations to the "minority" on default deliberately breaks pareto principle which exists in all of nature & thrives life


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-09 21:50:20
body:
@jestdotty 
It’s the EU tho. A bunch of old bureaucrats who don’t understand a single thing about anything so they create norms out of the blue.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 21:52:48
body:
@Tounai garlic is a drug

ginger is a drug

tea? drug

chocolate? drug

spices are literally medicinal drugs! we don't view them that way now but they are!

everything is a drug!

breathe air and it has aluminum dust in it? drug!


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 21:55:44
body:
@Tounai make the harmful acts people do illegal, not the activity that is tangentially related to their harmful activities

drugs themselves are fine if you're responsible with them

now... how about those doctors that prescribed opioids to everyone while told them they weren't addictive?

or how about drug dealers that keep lacing fentanyl in everything when that's not what you asked for?

and you can arrest them on the basis of using poor drug mules, or disclosing their airplanes of drugs incorrectly on flight reports to the government (which allows slave laboured items to get into the country, otherwise you can't tell if goods were made by slave labour or what)


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 21:59:45
body:
@Tounai well step one is not excusing their behaviour 

cuz doing that it'll only get worse until something breaks and people finally cease excusing their behavior. there is no other way out


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 22:06:08
body:
@Tounai you identified the EU with their behavior

as soon as you cease viewing EU as the identity filled with people of that disposition, the EU will cease being of the identity of being filled with people of that disposition

you wanna start a revolution, just change the perception of what the EU identity is, and everything else follows from there. because it'll actually make people uncomfortable that the identity doesn't fit, so they'll wanna do something about it. by acknowledging the embarrassing identity and just living with it, you excuse it, normalize it, and it continues. you give it power, legitimacy, as "that's just the way things are"


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-09 22:09:06
body:
@jestdotty 
The problem is that the structure is in favour of putting old, ignorant people in power. Perception won’t change that.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-09 22:18:08
body:
You should see if you can win a guiness record for shits in a year.

https://ranker.com/list/...

https://guinnessworldrecords.com//

You might have to create a new category though.

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.ranker.com/list/gross-world-records/jacob-shelton", "short_url": "https://ranker.com/list/...", "title": "https://ranker.com/list/...", "start": 69, "end": 96, "special": 1}, {"type": "url", "url": "https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/", "short_url": "https://guinnessworldrecords.com//", "title": "https://guinnessworldrecords.com//", "start": 98, "end": 132, "special": 1}]


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2024-11-09 22:47:52
body:
Average defecation is quite varied. Between 3 times a day and once every 3 days is considered normal. 

6 times a day sounds excessive. But there is the story they told us in the third year of med school. There is no story, I never went to med school.

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user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2024-11-09 22:56:28
body:
That last thing, that make intuitive sense to my gamer brain. Back to the respawn point. 

Hmm... The meta studies on gamers and violence came back with no indication for increased violence. 

Maybe it is time to make a study if gamers on hard drugs are more prone to violence than non-gamers on hard drugs.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 00:56:24
body:
@jestdotty I do not really get downvoted but it is depressing to see if you have zero upvotes and the one below you has five :P If i only cared about upvotes, i would've said way different stuff


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 01:03:14
body:
@retoor I think the trick is to still say the same stuff but get up voted for it. if the content changes then you're cheating!


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 01:05:24
body:
@TrayKnots surgeons who are gamers score 26% better on surgery things at minimum

so said Elon musk and Joe Rogan on their interview

gamers rise up

anyway so I started playing games again because I have brain damage I have to reheal from


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 01:12:30
body:
@jestdotty yh, that's the only moment you'll see me gaming, brain damage :P As you know, I was 1,5 year off track regarding brain because the medication, but I didn't game :P I stared at the wall instead


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 01:13:36
body:
@jestdotty I hope that the 'ostream didn't delete thimself' meme one day will be funny again, I just keep posting


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 01:14:27
body:
Ah nice. A kinda pokemon :)

gamerant? Wtf, thiefs, with their cheap hosting that  can't even stream a video decently


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 01:38:09
body:
@12bitfloat like b2plane. I consider everything computer ontopic tbh. I think that 70% here or so (or maybe 90? :P) here games so yeah, there's audience


body: I still haven’t reached the Elden ring dlc area.
user_username: ars1
created: 2024-11-10 02:09:31
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user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 02:23:47
body:
it's probably the bots tbh

things aren't up voted by merit. so you never see the best of humanity. you see the best of humanity that still tows some arbitrary and irrelevant line. so merit degrades, and everyone becomes nihilistic


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 02:29:48
body:
Since the police have monopoly on violence, in real life it happens too. People just saying stuff, because if you lash out, you're the one having the problem. People can bully you endless if they want.  There's some tv program about stalkers and those people are completely crazy, but can do whatever they want because it's not violent and violence against the stalker is forbidden. Those people completely terrorizing people


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 02:29:50
body:
@retoor I used to game a lot. I pirated and played every game I knew existed, and basically 80% of the MMOs that ever existed during the MMO golden era (I was poor, mom sat on welfare, computers have infinite free content, yarr!)

when mobile phones came into being I would see full adults be addicted to candy crush on the subway. but I'd see this even 2-4 years after candy crush era ended. it was strange to me these people were still addicted to games, and one game no less

I think I ceased being dopamine driven pretty early on, like 12-13. my friends would be so annoyed at me. I would get them into a game and I'd be gone in 2-3 days on to something else, bored. aside from my first year or two of gaming, I basically somehow, cured myself of gaming addiction by exposure

yesterday I played multiwinia, one of these favourite dear to my heart games nobody knows of. I've never been addicted to it or darwinia. I somehow played several matches and couldn't help myself. bruh, wild?


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-10 02:33:52
body:
@jestdotty That's also definitely true, there's TONS of rage bait and stuff

But the point still stands... They wouldn't do that IRL because they'd get roughing up


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-10 02:35:32
body:
@retoor You're not wrong, but I mean it more in the general sense of mankind. If you talk shit, you get hit.... Only now in the internet age is it different that you can essentially talk as much shit as you want without any consequence whatsoever


user_username: ars1
created: 2024-11-10 02:38:59
body:
@TeachMeCode oh. I made a new character and I’m going everywhere collecting magic. I haven’t beaten a single shard bearer yet despite being in the leyndell surroundings already.
Radhan is gonna fuck me up so hard, but Mogh at my level is gonna be a nightmare.

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user_username: TeachMeCode
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-10 02:43:51
body:
@ars1 cool, level up and kick ass. make sure youre ready for the dlc as the bosses are brutal there, and the final boss is actually harder than malenia. And the level you arrive at wont mean shit bc your damage output and defense comes down to scadu blessings


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 03:39:02
body:
@12bitfloat had a stalker from NL saying that to me. sounds stupid to me

he was like, you wouldn't reject me IRL cuz I'd knock your skull in! something to that effect

kicker is I think my 5'8" ass would intimidate his 6'5" smeagle ass, which is just gonna make him even sadder as a human being

now I understand why he was so big into stalking

... also irl I wouldn't have to punch him. I wouldn't survive a punch from a dude well, if it hit lol, and I don't even know how to punch. so it's not punching

actually I once read out loud the messages he sent to me, via voice clip recordings, cuz he kept going on about how I interpreted him, so to prove to him I didn't interpret him the way he was saying, I read his messages in the way he sounded in my head. he "laughed" at me (but it was fake), and then 2 hours later he ragequit and deleted his server, account, etc. I didn't see him for 2 weeks. then he came by and tried to sexually harass me saying my voice was hot in those clips. right


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-10 03:50:01
body:
It's teenagers and "know it all" student types that cause the majority of trouble online because they're stupid assholes. lol

It would take a lot to actually hit someone in person, Social media always causes a lot of trouble because of mixed company where you have different social structures and relationships with people in one place, for example; your drinking buddies and good friends you grew up with, will perceive you differently than your professional colleagues and people who look up to you.

trouble usually breaks out over something trivial like a "throw away" comment to one person picked up by another and inflated by algorithms.

Close friends and family can be very protective too and that can cause trouble.

Social media sites, know this and they love it, drama 24/7 drives traffic.

Ultimately, online toxicity is designed and controlled by Social media sites.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-10 03:50:31
body:
@jestdotty Yikes, that sounds horrible

But I say this: If you would have punched him into the next dimension, he would have stopped right quick

But that's easier to say when you're a man. Which is why we need to protect women and stop to pretending men and women are exactly the same. We should have the same rights, but we have very different experiences


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 04:09:37
body:
@12bitfloat if I punched him he'd punch me and I wouldn't survive that. so it's in my best interest for there not to be punches

but still IRL somehow a woman who can't punch has more power. and those voice clips gave me power that plain text didn't


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-10 04:16:12
body:
@jestdotty Yeah but that's exactly what I'm saying: Men have a system of shared influence over each other because they can beat each other the f down

That's why they aren't violent....  At leat against each other


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-10 05:16:13
body:
I remember teaching my sister to punch.  Some kid in junior high kept giving her shit.  She punched him in the arm.  He couldn't lift his arm the rest of the day.  Next day he had black, blue, and green bruise.  He never bothered her again.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-10 07:09:08
body:
@TrayKnots maybe there is a story like this video.  I went searching for "man shits himself to death".  I think this is pretty close:

https://youtube.com/watch/...

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg7-OnwZWms", "short_url": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "title": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "start": 135, "end": 164, "special": 1}]


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 07:17:03
body:
@Demolishun oh

I just remembered

in medieval times... they had... some amazing torture methods

one of them was
you put a dude sandwiched between two boats
his head and feet, hands are quartered outside of the boat I think

and then they force feed him milk and honey

until he shits himself to death
in the sun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

the article's description is worse btw

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism", "short_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...", "title": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...", "start": 315, "end": 348, "special": 1}]


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-10 09:34:05
body:
@jestdotty Something for the used car gangsters to consider when he starts missing payments on his BMW.


body: the weekend was raw Saturn, cos of its moons
user_username: AceDev
created: 2024-11-10 11:14:58
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user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 11:23:36
body:
@retoor nah but fuck that I'm off next wednesday. I cant do it anymore i never slowed down for a year and a half. The girl is not happy but fuck this I'm burned out.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 11:26:19
body:
@retoor but we're fine. Yesterday I had a loooooong walk, I went to the forest nearby the city. The real one that is that forever, not the stupid wood they put here so the king could go hunting.


user_username: cafecortado
created: 2024-11-10 12:11:15
body:
So he is a wizard that can invoke 100 dollar bills in people's wallets? I want a 100 euro one instead, pretty please Trump 🙏


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 12:24:50
body:
@jestdotty @Demolishum as an extralegal chemical broker, keep in mind I can have anything shipped through your door. 

Did you know there was an LSD analog that doesn't have any psychoactivity but specifically decrease the post-ejaculatory period to a few seconds. So a man can come non-stop and be at it right after.

Anyway let me know. I have drugs, vaccines, explosives, slaves, children, rare animals, radioactive shit, older celebrities's DNA,...


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 12:30:51
body:
I hate the heretics seriously. Maurs and jews are fine but those dutchies and germans who betrayed the pope simply because he was selling pieces of paradise? Fucking hell.

And don't get me started on the cathars and their free love revolution. Fucking hippies. Burn them all.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 12:35:44
body:
Bitch quit larping as a yank. Trump is a fat bitch who wear diapers and would be a neckbearded basement incel if he wasn't born in money. Their whole elections are hollywood bullshit. The ricans put putin in power, they made serbia genocide the muslims and then bombed belgrade. How much of a stockhold syndrom can you have lmao. 

They bombed your country and made you guys their bitch and now you're sucking their cock. Pathetic.


user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2024-11-10 12:38:39
body:
@Demolishun I try to trigger people to lose downvote privileges. I need to try harder I guess.

You could never trigger me enough, because it's me who does the triggering.

I have managed to get JestDotty to quit the matrix group and get Nanos to delete himself from both matrix and devRant.

It takes a special build to achieve that. Perhaps I could teach you how to do that. Interested?


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 12:40:44
body:
@jestdotty the UE commission (aka its executive power, think prime minister cabinet / governement) is not elected. It's a coopted position. So it's always the same crony politician picking the same people regardless of what people have actually voted for. 

Also the parliament is a fucking joke. People go there to get drunk for cheap. There's the mickey bar with 1 euros for a cup of champagne deal. It's called like that because of the funny chairs. If you wanna be rich, work for the UE. They don't even pay taxes.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 12:43:50
body:
Right? I'm burned out, I took the two next wednesday off. It's less money but I just cant stand it anymore.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 12:51:42
body:
Take the hooligans who went to amsterdam yesterday lmao. If they knew they were gonna get beat up they might not have attacked that taxi driver.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 13:07:17
body:
@retoor nah Ihave a sdd, I think 256 or 512g. But I see I can have 12TO Hdd for 120 euros from the dutchies. 12To is enough for cold storage.


user_username: cafecortado
created: 2024-11-10 14:02:31
body:
Uranus. No, I'm serious, it's interesting because it has an axial tilt of about 90%, so it rotates sideways.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 14:02:52
body:
It's funny. Notepad should've been the minimal thing that would always work. Putting AI in it would prolly not align with that


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 14:05:50
body:
@antigermgerm that's not true, Trump was since childhood a winner in many things. He's not just rich. Check his docu but also movies "about trump" on YT. You may not like the guy, but he does everything to win and often does.

That je wins should tell you that your media is a fat liar. About more stuff?

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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 14:31:30
body:
I'm free for a long time but keep charging. It's possible to be that empty. I enjoy every day. Even with so much time, I have not time enough to do everything I want. There's so much things to spend time on. Enjoy your charging, but prolly you could use more than a few days


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 14:35:55
body:
Saturnus, Just heard a conspiracy about it and why judges, graduates, religious figures etc wear black belts. According to that conspiracy it has to do with saturnus.

I do have muxiphobia tho


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 14:44:14
body:
@antigermgerm what do people do with that much storage? I had 1tb of porn and that's MASSIVE. Can't imagine having more than that


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 14:57:30
body:
@bazmd some people do not take other people online serious, like not human being and do whatever they want. I do care about others online and take them serious. Still, I prefer anonymous social media so I can say things my friends wouldn't like. These days anyone can cancel you, friendship became so fragile


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 15:01:59
body:
@antigermgerm crazy stuff huh? Agressive jews ffs. Not very peaceful. They were quite organized as well, police had quite some troubles. In the end - the jews did get away with no consequences afaik while they really misbehaved


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 15:21:03
body:
The Real Jase is a very novice programmer, don't think so.

Those messages are posted on multiple sites, it's about backlinking. Devrant does quite ok in Google. But if we downvote... What's the point.. But those people never look back. I doubt if it's automated, I think it's manual. Too many inconsistencies. Don't underestimate how cheap labor is in some places. Scammers on my phone talk endless with me (I do this for fun). Not AI but real people. We would consider it crazy if it's manual, but it's really crazy. Some people are cheaper than a bot


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-10 15:56:45
body:
We're fully in the AI bubble. Nobody knows why it's needed but VC companies want it. So they're shoving it in anything and telling everyone it's great when there's maybe 3 real use cases where users actually benefit from it.

Gonna be carnage when it bursts.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 16:18:45
body:
@retoor he's a walking aneurysm. Wtf is wrong with america electing dements? The libs are right, putin did bought trump. What they don't tell you is that putin have been put there by clinton to replace the USSR. Putin is an american bitch. 

Can't you see? Putin have been sent by the stasi. He's a german asset. Trump is german. Because they tell you they are different, that they are british, americans, austrians, french, askenazis. But in reality, they are all germans.

Antigermanism is the only logcal worldview. Fuck the germans.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 16:36:19
body:
@Tounai France is a mess because of the franks. Germans should leave gaul and be shipped back east imo they're all alcoholic.

Dehors les germains et leur haleine de vin.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 16:38:26
body:
@atheist if it was so great, it wouldn't need so much promotion. I mean, the people still not using it by this time, just don't freaking want it. So quit it. Wherever those movies? Do they think there's someone that doesn't know it yet? Especially from dev audience? But I hate it because github is the perfect site for having a open source news channel, there will be no better if they wanted to. They could be #1 in no time. Companies with too much money suck. If they weren't so rich, they would've cared more. Netflix too, they would've cared more if they were less rich. Companies that only do shit for money sucks, but if they have some other goal, it sucks more. Why does Microsoft AI needs so much advertisement, most people don't even have a choice to use it or not


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 16:41:05
body:
@retoor hooliganism is weird. I never understood football (it's soooo fucking boring) but clubs all have their personalities and ideology. It's kinda fascinating.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-10 17:06:42
body:
Busy weekend but hopefully some drinks tonight, favorite planet is Omicron Perci 8, that's where the ruler Lrrr lives.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 17:11:42
body:
@antigermgerm it's about being in a flock. Everyone considers to be part of a certain flock. It can be a club, country, race, people who do the same job / Hobby as you (I'm in this one) or whatever. The world is not a flock, that's for people that care about nothing. Finding your flock is important


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 17:39:19
body:
@antigermgerm https://youtu.be/vtkQiLkNgOI/... our x270 is way better, but it's cool there's a one day old video about the previous version of the laptop we love being the ultimate Linux laptop

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://youtu.be/vtkQiLkNgOI?si=6-n2Tdtn9Fq3LLhO", "short_url": "https://youtu.be/vtkQiLkNgOI/...", "title": "https://youtu.be/vtkQiLkNgOI/...", "start": 14, "end": 46, "special": 0}]


user_username: Ranchonyx
created: 2024-11-10 17:52:46
body:
@atheist I'm hoping it bursts soon... If my boss ever asks me about "well, why can't we just make AI do that?" again, I'm going to beat someone.


body: @retoor https://youtube.com/watch/... Who's that kid he's hillarious
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 17:52:55
links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySHIOYyJ95A", "short_url": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "title": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "start": 8, "end": 37, "special": 1}]


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 18:09:09
body:
@retoor just random discord server. don't remember now. he was passing by and arguing with somebody and I got in the middle of it. evidently it was some chick and she said now he was mine. and I guess I adopted a retarded Chihuahua human

then he proceeded to sit anywhere I was for 3 months and wouldn't talk

then he messaged me once saying he loved me

and he still couldn't talk

then he started getting violent, and like calling women axe wounds or something
and he had rage issues if anyone talked to me which was lame, so then because that wasn't flying with me he kept oscillating through various versions of self destruction

then he tried to tell people I abused him somehow, but anytime anyone met me they no longer bought it, and eventually everyone just tagged him as a crazy bipolar girl or something

and then he found some weird discord therapist who is probably a pedo and runs a cult of little girls, but he got saner after that


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 18:10:03
body:
Great, I've been on his page before. But for some reason didn't try it. Don't remember why. I will try your github thingy tho. Probably tomorrow. I'm plating with ollama models currently. The 0.5 and 1.5b are quite useful. I need those since my vps can't do better


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 18:14:24
body:
think I'm running on empty for 8 years but I don't even do anything yet I eternally feel like garbage

what is this magical state people keep talking about


user_username: trekhleb
created: 2024-11-10 18:29:27
body:
@retoor I've tried to train ~80M GPT parameters on a single GPU in the browser so far. Pretty heavy. It is interesting to see how 1.5B parameter will behave...

user_avatar:
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user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-10 18:31:58
body:
@retoor
Yes, it is believed that it rains diamonds on some planets in our galaxy, particularly on gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn. These planets have extreme pressure and temperatures in their atmospheres that can cause carbon atoms to crystallize and form into diamonds. However, these diamonds are most likely small in size and not the gem-quality diamonds we are familiar with on Earth.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 18:32:32
body:
@trekhleb that's thing, I have only a cpu. So I can forget training myself prolly. It will never get in neighborhood of 1.5b?


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 18:42:54
body:
@chatgpt but what is the reason something as heavy as a diamond would rain on saturnus.  Why not something else than that? There's much gravity right?


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-10 18:43:21
body:
@retoor
The "diamond rain" on Saturn is a phenomenon caused by the extreme pressure and temperature within the planet's atmosphere. The atmospheric conditions on Saturn are such that carbon atoms in the atmosphere can be compressed and crystalized into solid diamonds as they fall towards the planet's interior.

The reason this happens specifically with diamonds has to do with the composition of Saturn's atmosphere and the carbon-rich environment. While Saturn does have high gravity, it is not the sole factor that determines the formation of diamond rain. Other factors such as temperature, pressure, and chemical composition all play a role in this unique process.

Other materials could theoretically rain on Saturn under different conditions, depending on the specific atmospheric and planetary conditions. In the case of Saturn, however, the combination of high pressure and temperature along with the abundance of carbon in its atmosphere results in diamond rain.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 19:53:53
body:
@Ranchonyx I think AI will stay hyped for a long time. There is so much work to be done. It keeps evolving. But AI does kinda what we want, and programmers do exactly what we want. That kinda part is an issue that makes AI almost unusable. Retoorii1b (my AI model) that will become my talking resume just keeps doing too much, just not what I want. And you don't want a bot that represents you that adds content you don't agree to. It makes stuff up, fine, but it's not for professional usage


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 20:29:57
body:
black hole

cuz I wonder what's in it

---

I don't know. I don't even have weekends. I apparently got a migraine so bad yesterday I thought it was just a headache because my body had gone numb lol, only found out in the shower when I couldn't feel anything with my body. nice

eating a bunch of dark chocolate and cheese may have been the mistake earlier this week

also everything is breaking, I'm out of cleaner to clean the place yet 2 days ago I claimed I'd be done in the next week, but now I'm gonna have to wait until the 15th to order new cleaner

maybe my brain will recover enough to where I can code again, cuz before the 15th i'd really want some working code

at least all of crypto is going nuts because Trump won. now there's gonna be trump backstabbing drama left and right

really enjoying this weird esoteric experts in weird fields nobody takes seriously being interviewed on YouTube channel I found though. so exciting

maybe I'll play more video games and drown my misery


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-10 20:32:44
body:
@AdamOnAir yeah, back in Win 3.11 and Windows 95 days I didn't like the Windows API either.  I ended up doing Linux as my main driver for about 10 years back then.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-10 22:39:59
body:
He tried with a trial in finnland (?) where you needed to pay 1 dollar to create an account and there was outrage

Nobody knows how to stop bots


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 23:00:06
body:
@retoor well it's a full moon where I'm at so that's something. I was gonna try to eat the moon via witchcraft but just now I accidentally figured out there really is a meaning to life wtf. did not expect to be pilled on that so maybe I'll be distracted (plus something about lunatics? idk)

um so there's a predictable slight boost in crypto 15th to 25th where everyone gets their paychecks and gambling more money cuz haven't paid rent yet, so there's slightly more money in the system at those times so I set them as deadlines for good luck

but also I just simply order groceries twice a month. I keep buying kefir cuz making my own hasn't worked yet, and it lasts about 2 weeks from the store which means I order groceries about twice a month, and it just so happen to fall on the beginning / end and middle of the month because that's when I do my bills I guess so I just do all my computer accounting chores at once


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 23:05:33
body:
I'm already training four days a rnn on a spare laptop. It's training with eight books. It already can create some sentences. The method I use has its limits. If you train too long, it'll make up his own language, it gets too creative. This rnn is also from scratch written by someone, it's very small in C, but python version exists too


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 23:11:36
body:
@12bitfloat I think it's a good idea actually. People spend so much time on it, it must be worth one time a dollar. But sadly, peoples attitude these days is that everything must be for free


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 23:13:44
body:
Maybe phone number verification? OpenAI had no issues with that. Same for Claude. People just give it


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 23:28:59
body:
@Ranchonyx you know, Trump won mainly the hearts of young guys. Especially the "white" ones bevause the left demonized "white men" for years. What guy will vote for that? I think that the thinking part actually did vote Trump. It's the non thinking part that just swallows the biased media. That traditional media is dying, and so happy about it. If they were not biased they could've survived. But since they are, you only get to hear what they want. They're doing smth called white lies. It's not saying incorrect stuff, but leaving some facts behind on purpose. They never said anything positive about trump while he's nominated three times for peace prize for example.

All our news comes from Reuters and they're biased already. So if that's the source..


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 23:29:28
body:
@jestdotty yeah but not yet. I mean I'm refining my antigermanist philosophy but I feel like I'm still not there on the semantic behind it. Why are germans like that? What is germanity? Are we all a bit germans and if so can we wash it off?


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 23:36:42
body:
@retoor trump is the antihero for the dumb twats. Alwayz have been. If I was a weak ass bitch with a lust of power i would hire to be the meanie and pretend we are very different so we get twice the vote and then boom we're just the same.

They're just nasdaq bitches.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 23:39:34
body:
@antigermgerm know that Harris is against you, white man. Are you a traitor of your own race and gender?


body: @antigermgerm
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-11 00:07:03
attached_image:
"{\"url\": \"https://img.devrant.com/devrant/rant/c_11443870_2Hb94.jpg\", \"width\": 800, \"height\": 748}"


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 01:18:56
body:
@retoor I don't wanna be identified

finance systems also identify you

could put new users into a limbo


user_username: trekhleb
created: 2024-11-11 06:56:38
body:
@retoor I'm not sure, it probably depends on the model configuration/implementation and equipment. But in the browser, for that "homemade GPT", I see that training on WebGPU is around x100 - x1000 times faster than CPU

user_avatar:
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user_username: isaachackett
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-11 07:33:16
body:
I hope it explodes quickly. I'm going to bash someone if my employer ever asks me again, "well, why can't we just make AI do that?"


user_username: isaachackett
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-11 07:36:10
body:
Wasabi is such a fantastic flavor! It adds the perfect kick to sushi and other dishes. Plus, it has some interesting health benefits too! What’s your favorite way to enjoy it?


user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2024-11-11 07:41:08
body:
if your code, and by "your" code I mean the code that you wrote, works without you being able to tell why, then I don't think you're cut out for software engineering.


body: it's not a problem from his perspective.
user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-11 08:24:21
user_avatar:
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 08:29:52
body:
@jestdotty you don't, but as we see with OpenAI, most people don't care. There are less people caring about giving their phone number than a dollar and it's easier to implement word wide instead of payment options. 

That's the real price of privacy people! 1 dollar!


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 08:39:29
body:
@trekhleb is there anything specific you want to make? I'm trying to make a chatbot clone of myself. It's working out nice with a 1b model. It's called retoor1b :D I choose a weaker model for two reasons:

- hardware limitation (laptop / vps, vps is faster)

- easier to train than a model that already has a 'full personality'

- it only has to do creative question answering. it doesn't have to solve complex questions. It can code quite well tho, maybe i'll delete that future


body: Wow, this one is nice too: https://dev.to/vivirenremoto/...
user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 09:51:04
links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://dev.to/vivirenremoto/doom-captcha-33hp", "short_url": "https://dev.to/vivirenremoto/...", "title": "https://dev.to/vivirenremoto/...", "start": 27, "end": 59, "special": 0}]


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 09:52:43
body:
I do see other gif captcha's but they make the mistake by showing all digits at once. In that case AI doesn't even care if it's a gif


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-11 09:56:11
body:
it's an interesting idea, and it might work. up to the point when attackers know it exists.

then, it's a trivially simple matter of "rendering the gif layers side to side, instead temporally one after another, then running it through the same OCR that's been working for ages". keep in mind that your _file_ contains all digits "all at once", and displaying it the intended way is basically just a user preference.

with the bonus of new accessibility problems for people with vision impairments, as well as introducing the error of "typing 2341 instead of the shown 1234 because the user started watching the gif at $TheWrongTime".

user_avatar:
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user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-11 10:00:42
body:
you _might_ be able to partially fix this by providing a highly compressed video file instead, since this introduces the IMHO best bot-prevention technique of "making it computationally expensive"

user_avatar:
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user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-11 10:17:48
body:
@retoor Harris is a liberal and thus is for the racist status quo. She is the renegate. She is not against white male, she just try to get votes away from leftists that could go against wall street power. 

I told you, they are nasdaq bitches. They dont give a shit about anything but their 401k


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-11 10:59:51
body:
A couple of years ago, giving simple instructions or basic reasoning would have been nice. LLMs killed it before it was needed.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 11:24:02
body:
@tosensei wrong sequence wouldn't happen since as I stated the digits will be shown at their own position like this: [][2][][]. The user knows what beginning and end is. The file contains all digits, yes, but there's no frame showing them all at once.

Rendering to video isn't a bad idea, they won't expect it as captcha


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 11:31:02
body:
Nah, I think life has more happy things than sad things. Friends can only die once, you probably don't get betrayed twice, and between such events, there's a lot of time for happy stuff


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 11:32:25
body:
@Lensflare this time even more evil. I did not even upvote. I can't help it, evil retoorii is gaining power, she's outta control


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-11 11:32:40
body:
I might have said this to one of the other bots that posted that picture, but the colour settings on those monitors being so different would drive me absolutely spare.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 11:51:38
body:
Someone has done all the work already: https://github.com/skeeto/.... It doesn't include a lib what I normally prefer, but for creating a gif I would use one

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://github.com/skeeto/gap-buffer-animator", "short_url": "https://github.com/skeeto/...", "title": "https://github.com/skeeto/...", "start": 39, "end": 68, "special": 0}]


user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2024-11-11 12:15:18
body:
@retoor you don't get to full power until u reach my level. You have to troll me into deleting my account here, so u still have a long way to go !!


user_username: Ganofins
created: 2024-11-11 12:40:23
body:
@retoor they have a large customer base so I don't think it would be possible for them to switch to own hosting thing. Beside most of their team is sale, customer success related. Only 1-2 people take care of engineering stuff

It will be tricky thing for them. Right now we will be suggesting them to harden their user login, removing unused/suspicious 3rd party apps, things like that
Let's see


user_username: Ganofins
created: 2024-11-11 12:44:13
body:
@PappyHans yeah we also focused on compromised users thing and suggested them to harden their users login passwords, implementing 2FA, etc things


user_username: netikras
created: 2024-11-11 12:53:48
body:
@retoor looks nice, but I find that 'x timeunits ago' format rather annoying, esp when it's everywhere...

I prefer bash's built-ins (taken from my ~/.bashrc):

```

export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F %T "

export IGNOREEOF=2

export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "↑$(date +%H:%M:%S) [${PIPESTATUS[@]}]\n"'

```

Still working on the 'duration' part


user_username: Chewbanacas
created: 2024-11-11 13:03:42
body:
To be fair I found it to be a great blessing using the standard ctrl R.
But thanks I’ll check it out

user_avatar:
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 13:13:25
body:
@netikras nice. Even worse, the duration is live, so it updates every second. 1s ago, 2s ago etc. Who makes smth like that live 😂


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-11 13:15:31
body:
@retoor I do occasionally have this feeling that if I can't fit all my stuff in a single 80x25 terminal then my stuff is too complicated.  But I don't seem to have the discipline / brains / masochism to keep that up.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-11 13:28:57
body:
@retoor autowrap ftw!
Why constraint yourself to an arbitrary line length which depends on the monitor size?


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-11 13:29:25
body:
Bad ass molten lead storm sounds like one of @b2plane's dunnykin stories.

Dragon fire tsunami I might consider if it was half price in Lidl.

Velociraptor fuckfest sounds like you're getting unexpectedly sodomised by a bunch of carnivorous chickens so I'd probably swerve that one.


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-11 13:34:59
body:
If cwerg was a word in Polish it would sound like the German word for dwarf.

Does it involve dwarves in any way?

I can't be doing with it if there are no dwarves.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 14:44:03
body:
Yeah, nothing is allowed there so everyone says the same. Everyone is extraordinary nice. Nothing realistic about it. Bot for this, bot for that


body: What’s wrong with WinAPI ?
user_username: Biggy
created: 2024-11-11 15:05:37
user_avatar:
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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-11 15:46:36
body:
@12bitfloat I don't know.  I am definitely a TDS enjoyer.  However, I tend to feel sorry for people with completely insane beliefs about what will happen.  The media lied so much they believe in shit that isn't real at all.  

Also, something to note.  If a presidential election matters THIS MUCH, then the government is too big.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 16:11:02
body:
@Lensflare zwolfo sounds like someone that slaps his pp on everything. In Dutch it's called swaffelen (hitting her face with pp)


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 16:16:59
body:
@Lensflare devrant is very normal. Everything is possible these days but not many abuse it. We're the proof that such bots aren't necessarily. They're scared for nothing. Says a lot how they think about people. 9gag could use such bot tho. Women hating racists. It's too much to still consider it jokes. 50% of them mean what they say


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 16:21:18
body:
@Tounai in this scenario you would GIVE your privacy to spare a dollar. They should allow both options. I really think they're both not bad ideas. If devrant requested a dollar for lifetime, I would do it too. Small price to pay for smth you frequently use, especially if it keeps bots out.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-11 16:28:07
body:
@Lensflare That's one of the reasons I like devrant. I think if platforms become too big you naturally form bubbles as obviously not everybody can see and interact with everyone else, so they congregate with people they agree with

Devrant is small enough that there can be *one* post feed which means we all get exposed to the ideas of everyone else

Kinda keeps you more grounded


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-11 16:32:57
body:
@retoor
Let’s spare both a dollar and privacy by not using Twitter. No matter what choice you make, it’s lost time.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 16:34:21
body:
See statistics on top here:https://forex.com/ie/.... Will not be different with bitcoin. You want to put last money on 24% chance of winning? You could maybe better put your money on red at roulette and spare yourself checking bitcoin every hour and still losing. I'm not temped to both of them. I had an account to play poker on a site, decided that poker still is more luck than strategy, put all the money I had in account on red at roulette, made profit and I directly cashed out. So, gambling never costed me money. I hate gambling, too pessimistic for that. For poker I was very well prepared and a good player, but didn't like it in the end

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.forex.com/ie/markets-to-trade/forex-trading/", "short_url": "https://forex.com/ie/...", "title": "https://forex.com/ie/...", "start": 27, "end": 51, "special": 0}]


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 17:22:16
body:
@Tounai my uncle said for fun under a post about a guy that was riding 45 and got a ticket with a fatbike, that his fatbike went 60km/h. Not true, but just for fun. It exploded and got death threats. Later he told the people he was 68 and ofc doesn't have a fatbike 😂 But people on Twitter threaten with death for owning a fast bicycle 😂


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 17:26:28
body:
@TrayKnots they should be posting that stuff under old rants so nobody gets notifs to downvote. There are many rants with no one still existing in comment section. That's good for backlinking prolly. I dunno how often Google reindexes, it took more than a month before it fully indexed my thousand page site that had a complete valid site map. Can't imagine reindexing with such a slow bot almost


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 17:33:13
body:
You should've seen @chaosesqueteam. He had a quite advanced and big bot network on dr that would upvote posts with certain terms and eachother. Quite impressive

Selenium isn't needed since devrant has an api (There are 20 pages of devrant api projects on github!) . Ever tried cypress btw? It works great but it had performance issues in the era I worked with it during big test cases and no one including gitter chat knew solution. I ended up answering questions instead of getting mine resolved


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 17:37:47
body:
@12bitfloat a bit more content on dr would be nice tho. Active users is enough, writers not and myself is a writer but not from rants. I collect single upvotes with random stories. I found a way to post more than two times in a hour tho


user_username: codePain
created: 2024-11-11 18:12:08
body:
Am happy you are used C . I built one in python  flask ... hehehehe we all no wat happens ... the app is in production

user_avatar:
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 18:36:10
body:
@codePain nice, Google is easy delivery indeed. my c applications do reach production usage, no issues with it. They won't drain 100% cpu full time while being slow. Also, aiohttp is cooler than flask. My site is written in aiohttp and uses a self written in C rest server. The rest server is both pubsub and db. All works perfect.

Sad that nobody uses quart python frwmework. I think because asyncio is overrated. Aiohttp is better tho, class based views and easy to chain apps under urls. So your modules are also complete apps, technically there's no difference in hierarchy of a main app and modules what is the case on django. Flask blueprints are horrible


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-11 18:40:27
body:
@theranter I suspect quite a bit actually lol

By the democrats, republicans, north korea, russia, china, they are all doing it


body: "Perfectly balanced. Sips tea" - The Spiffing Brit
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-11 19:03:19
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user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2024-11-11 19:05:58
body:
good on you that u posted this with a 'joke/meme' tag. 

Otherwise, war crimes would've been committed in this thread.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-11 19:12:02
body:
But Windows is better than Linux.  I mean, Linux is so shitty you can't even buy it at the store.  Windows costs money.  So it has to be better.


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-11 19:23:36
body:
I wonder why everyone is going crazy with this thing, it seems like a bloated version of the default search


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 19:31:44
body:
@Demolishun no

trump had a Bitcoin advocate guy

to be fair it's the only way USA could get out of its debt problem

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user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-11 19:40:47
body:
Every time someone overloads the > operator so that it works on completely different types of object, God kills a kitten.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 19:45:20
body:
I like tea

and also I would like my useless co workers not to bother me anymore and hopefully not touch important things

so yes I guess?

unknown if Intel will survive though


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-11 20:15:41
body:
@AdamOnAir is the foundation filled with communists?  I lost interest with Debian when they went on an anti IP ownership tirade because of Stallman.  How dare people own trademarked names.

Now I think Microsoft is filled with cunts, but I am wary of the anti UP cunts as well.


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-11 20:17:04
body:
@AdamOnAir When you create an implicit conversion between completely different types he kills a puppy.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 20:28:56
body:
el Salvador got out of a really horrible situation with Bitcoin

Michael saylor just bought more BTC on debt

this isn't a quick thing and I still think b2plane has too neurotic a disposition to do stonks

word around the street is eventually everything will be Bitcoin. will take like 20 years though

Michael saylor gets businesses on board so they can have their treasuries avoid inflation

when Trump won... the next stage of the game began. nation states FOMO. governments are slow though

the halvening is every 4 years roughly, happened in April. afterwards Bitcoin goes up. the miners are incentivized to do marketing -- and contrary to popular belief miners are people who look for cheap electricity, like off hours at hydro dams. and everything runs on electricity. good leverage


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 20:34:44
body:
it's a game of musical chairs

the first country to go on Bitcoin wins

so far they been playing poker pretending it's bad, and nobody wants it, and you're a criminal if you have it

once the bluff is called... the game changes


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 20:57:37
body:
@Demolishun it wasn't me thiis time! Also, the game! 

God dammit, why can't I see all my rants? I have something done like you did, but bit worse.

I copied the contents of an iso file to /dev/sda2. My god my god my god. I was tired. Now that laptop thinks it's a lvie-cd and asks if I want to install linux on startup. Even worse, it won't boot from any usb stick anymore. No idea what's going on


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 21:02:40
body:
@jestdotty they're not the first. I've heard that they pay iwith it in DUbai and there was another country who did it afaik


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 21:06:29
body:
@Tounai if you mean recently, it was part of an episode of a popular linux yt channel. Reason that people go crazy is because ctrl+r was very limited, if you did several times "cp <filename>" it wouldn't search further than last match until you type along. It still works like that but narrows it down to a list.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 21:12:21
body:
@Tounai I made ctrl+p today. It will navigate to every project directory what i'm working on at the moment and executes "code .". So, now I have client, server and protocol project open at once. Should've make this earlier. All the time i've spent cd'ing to all those directories


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 21:14:05
body:
@retoor Dubai is cool as shit apparently

yeah ofc Dubai would allow it. I mean new egg takes Bitcoin payments long time ago. taking payments not the same as having a Treasury though. Is Dubai even a country or just some billionaire bought some land in the desert?

the benefit of countries is the country prints the currency of its local citizens. if countries buy Bitcoin it will destroy inflation, which nobody seems to "understand" where inflation comes from. it's really bad and much higher than the 4% it was claimed in the western world

everyone's gotten poorer for decades now and they don't know it. from one person's salary affording a house in 4 years and being able to feed a family with 5 kids to you can be a couple with good jobs and maybe you'll manage to pay off your house in 20 years if nothing bad happens. and forget kids. maybe you can have 1 or 2 if you're really rich and really squeeze it smartly somehow. and you ain't doing anything fun in your lifetime


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 21:18:37
body:
Linux foundation are wokies investing everything into AI, woke and climate/environment, and only 6% or revenue in linux or so.  They do have a very nice diversity program tho. Jay!


body: nyah~!
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 21:20:43
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 21:25:02
body:
So, my father was a teacher. I was shocked that they had 'coffee money'. So you get a few euro's debit on a day, what you drink more, you have to pay. WTF,, pay for coffee!? IT person would just refuse to work there. And it was one of the bigger / better schools


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 21:27:26
body:
@retoor yeah it's damned insulting

fucking pizza parties. don't put garbage in my body. wtf? HOW is that a reward? oh you did work so well let's poison you with nitrites, glyphosate, and ruin your blood sugar and metabolism. that'll help you think well and perform in the future. eat it. eat it you pig.

literally self destructive


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 21:29:25
body:
There are quite some good tea flavors tho.

@chatgpt assume an average salary per year of someone working at intel america. assume the price of a bag of tea. calculate how much 15.000 times that salary per year devided by the assumed price of the teabag


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-11 21:29:42
body:
@retoor
I'm sorry, but I cannot provide a specific calculation as the salary at Intel America can vary greatly depending on the job role and experience level. Additionally, the price of a bag of tea can also vary significantly depending on the brand and quality.

If you provide me with specific salary and tea price values, I can definitely help calculate the result for you.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 21:31:07
body:
@jestdotty at one employer they spread XTC on the company parties. That's a thing. Sadly, before i worked there. That's always the story when you go work somewhere "WHen we were still small we did x, y, z, everything was better"


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 21:35:41
body:
@Tounai  it's 1.500 points :D  Ah i see, you also have 5.000 to 7.000 but this one is realiistic. I did match my avatar at a certain company. Now it's more smart casual


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 21:46:20
body:
@retoor oooh where I live beer is a big thing

I like beer. probably can't drink it now

but this is valid form of payment for me. it's like tea!

the teas I buy are about 20 cents a bag. I don't know how vastly the range price of tea per cup could be. if you buy in bulk the price is less, this is me just buying the small pricey containers of regular tea. organic tea might actually be cheaper because the leaves are stronger so you get more taste and a better effect with less material

yeah if they wanna say the tea is in place of salary the price wouldn't ever make sense. however, coffee makes people work faster and creates a good atmosphere, so for a good atmosphere I'll work faster and fine by me. a lot of teas are nootropics or have health benefits, so fine by me as well

beer? I have no justification lol. I just think it tastes good. few drugs I'll say no to. won't do them all the time though, but the option is nice, like a vacation


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 21:50:45
body:
@chatgpt price of tea is 20 cents a cup, imagine a person drinks tea every hour they work for fulltime work hours of 2000 a year

the salary at Intel ranges from 47,000 a year to 733,000 a year

calculate how much money in tea a person would drink after 2000 hours of work, with 20 cents a bag

then calculate how much that is as a percentage of 47,000 salary and a percentage for a 733,000 salary


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-11 21:51:04
body:
@jestdotty
First, let's calculate how much money the person would spend on tea in a year:
Cost per cup of tea = $0.20
Number of hours worked in a year = 2000
Number of cups consumed in a year = 2000

Total cost of tea in a year = $0.20 x 2000 = $400

Now, we'll calculate the percentage of the tea cost relative to the salaries provided:
For a salary of $47,000:
Tea cost as a percentage of $47,000 salary = ($400 / $47,000) x 100 = 0.85%

For a salary of $733,000:
Tea cost as a percentage of $733,000 salary = ($400 / $733,000) x 100 = 0.05%

Therefore, the person's tea consumption as a percentage of their salary would be 0.85% for a $47,000 salary and 0.05% for a $733,000 salary.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 21:57:29
body:
@chatgpt now imagine 47,000 and 733,000 salaries are taxed in California, because I'm pretty sure Intel has a bunch of employees in California

as a total percentage of their takedown amount of money, how much of their salary is being taxed?

(trump wants to get rid of income tax, granted I guess it's federal only)


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-11 21:58:06
body:
@jestdotty
To calculate the total percentage of their salary being taxed, we need to add the total salaries together.

Total salaries: $47,000 + $733,000 = $780,000

Assuming a conservative estimate of a 20% tax rate, the total amount being taxed would be:

Taxed amount = $780,000 * 0.20 = $156,000

To find the percentage of their salary being taxed, we divide the taxed amount by the total salary and multiply by 100:

Percentage of salary being taxed = ($156,000 / $780,000) * 100 = 20%

Therefore, 20% of their total salaries are being taxed in California. It's important to note that income tax is primarily a federal tax, but states like California also have their own income tax systems.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 21:58:37
body:
fucking how many R's are there in strawberry useless

I gotta Google my own data and tell it the logic to use and it still misunderstands English so one may as well use a calculator


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-11 22:16:43
body:
@jestdotty Not sure if it’s a true thing but apparently it also lowers your iron, when I was abusing green tea, I almost fainted several times at the gym under “heavy” weight


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 22:37:48
body:
@Tounai seemed fine by me

women get iron deficiency due to periods, but I never did despite being exclusively on green tea for like 5 years. granted I do eat a lot of meat

lemme look it up

---
ok it downregulates some transporters so your digestion might be compromised. I don't know if lack of iron would make you feel faint, sounds like a bit of a stretch / misinformation. the downregulation might be pretty insignificant if you generally eat good food (probably like 10% or 50% at worst, but if you eat 2 steaks that day instead of 1, or are able to tell what you're hungry for and eat it, then it'll be fine)

most likely cause of faint would be because it changes gut flora to be anti inflammatory. this would reduce blood pressure, and if you don't eat electrolytes (specifically potassium, sodium,  magnesium, calcium) and replenish them + get water, it will take your body some time to adjust to having less inflammation

inflammation itself will compromise digestion ability also


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-11 22:41:33
body:
@jestdotty does tea make you speak like a posh cunt?

Interesting side note.  A guy I work with was living in the UK.  He found the UK is turning into shit.  So he moved to South Korea.  Apparently his wife is Korean.  Wild times we are in.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 22:44:05
body:
@Demolishun black and green tea increases NAD/NADH which is made from b3 and very important energy source for neurons. also makes you live longer

so yes

you automatically become an intellectual and annoy everyone horribly, then laugh about it in that subtle posh way


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-11 23:22:56
body:
Windows makes you take it in the ass.  One size fits all.

Linux lets you design the trode and control rate, length, and volume of ass penetration.


body: @retoor I warned you...
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-11 23:26:05
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user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2024-11-11 23:45:18
body:
Naisu.

BMW kicked ass but after shadow of the erdtree I had to purposefully gimp myself by not using magic or transformations because otherwise everything would fucking keel over in a minute. 

Good thing too, so final boss wouldn't cockblock me XD


user_username: TeachMeCode
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-12 00:09:38
body:
@CoreFusionX damn! I couldn’t do that lol. I had to spam chain, pluck of many and all the fancy stuff to win. Even after soloing and beating the final boss of the dlc who I thought was harder than malenia on ng+5 using a strength dex and bleed build 

Right now I’m playing resident evil 2 remake…an oldish classic


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 02:22:34
body:
Couldn't stand reddit or tumbler for more than a few weeks, it's pointless investing time on sites like that.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-12 02:36:50
body:
can you take no for an answer?

after that it is determined if she thinks people can take no for an answer


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 02:50:04
body:
I heard that you could be suspended on twitter for pretending to be a bot, that's true. also when it was said that your account won't be suspended for a joke on X I tested this out, which turned out to be false, you will get suspended for a joke.

Just look at south parks account, they're taking no chances lol


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-12 02:54:44
body:
@Tounai Kinda? rustdoc/docs.rs is just objectively so awesome I can't really complain

It literally compiles documentation for *all* crates on crates.io for all versions, with types fully interlinked between dependencies, etc etc

It's just the best thing ever


user_username: devRancid
created: 2024-11-12 02:54:58
body:
Java did the same years before

Fuck auto-generated function references, they're not a replacement for proper hand-written documentation
It achieves the exact opposite: looks like shit and is unusable (no logical grouping, introduction or examples), less devs are willing to spend time because "the magic tool generates everything"

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user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-12 02:57:17
body:
@devRancid If you think Java or C++ (doxygen) even comes CLOSE to the Rust experience then you have never used Rust, it's so beautiful

And yeah, obviously good hand written documentation is even better. But most non rust libraries don't even have auto generated documentation, or at least one that doesn't suck ass (doxygen)!


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-12 03:00:34
body:
Like this shit is what I have to deal with in JS world (and this is even above average!): https://glmatrix.net/docs/

Meanwhile in Rust: https://docs.rs/cgmath/latest/...

Just no comparison, don't even @ me

links:
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user_username: Wisecrack
created: 2024-11-12 03:04:35
body:
@retoor apparently you were right that I only visit once ever four days.

The bread thing is someones epic idea of a prank.

I guess they better get to making that bread!

@Demolishun your aunt was totally fucking wild by the way.


user_username: devRancid
created: 2024-11-12 03:04:59
body:
What a joke lmao
Ugly ass list of names + generic copy paste description. Not even an argument list or return type unless you click on it

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user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-12 03:16:11
body:
@devRancid Cry more lmao

I never said cgmath docs are perfect, but it doesn't even matter because it still lists exactly what I want to know

What? Your pea brain needs a 3 paragraph description for a function called "vec3" which takes x, y and z and returns a Vector3 like it isn't fucking obvious what it does?

Auto generated docs aren't the be all end all, but fuck me, 99.9% of non rust libs can't even manage *that*


user_username: devRancid
created: 2024-11-12 03:21:33
body:
It's truly astonishing how rust fanboys defend a steaming pile of shit
How about you drink less soy milk and use a real language (C/C++), or is your pea brain too small to write bug/vulnerability-free code?


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-12 03:25:51
body:
@devRancid WIth all due respect, you're just willfully ignorant because you are afraid Rust will overtake you

And if that's you're attitude, at some point it will

I was a retarded Rust hater just like you at some point. Then I got over my ego and started learning it, and I'm not looking back

Not that Rust is the answer to everything. It has it's issues, both big and small, but you are so blinded by the fear of unknown that you can't even acknowledge the language for what it is. Sad


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 03:43:07
body:
@bazmd the secret to reddit is finding channels where they don't care for politics.  Like specialty gaming.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-12 03:48:44
body:
@Demolishun Wasn't trying to be mean! I like cppreference a lot, but it's only for std

That's exactly why I'm so grateful for Rust having a good docs story for all libraries


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 03:50:22
body:
Instead of starting with this:

"how fucking sexy she looks and that I want to clap em cheeks"

How about?:

"Hi, wanna get a coffee sometime?"


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 03:51:27
body:
@12bitfloat no, not upset, I noticed the fight after I posted.  I thought it was hilarious.

Edit: gotta upvote this shit and get some more contenders in here!


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 03:55:07
body:
Mine is: "Wild Cherry Blossom"

Don't burn my eyes or my butthole.  All purpose one stop cleaner for $2.50 a bottle.


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-12 06:25:42
body:
@12bitfloat what you're saying is great about autogenerated docs sounds an awful lot like intellisense of an ide which most languages have an lsp now so works. What have I missed?


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-12 07:59:53
body:
@retoor "there's no captcha like it" as i previously indicated: this argument will hold exactly up to the point when the first attacker sees it anywhere.

it's basically "security by novelty". which isn't any actual security.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-12 08:02:31
body:
@b2plane "lol the last one has to be a joke"

anything and everything concerning trump is a bad joke.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-12 08:04:22
body:
@Demolishun Mac: A beautiful penetrator that just works, but differently to all the other penetrators. No customization at all. Price: $4000.
If it doesn‘t penetrate, you are holding it wrong.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 08:15:03
body:
@Biggy if you need somebody killed I know people in the besa mafia. They can get anyone killed for 10k


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-12 08:59:24
body:
@Demolishun It doesn't just let you design it, there will be one vital component that you have to manufacture yourself, including mining the raw materials.


user_username: Hazarth
created: 2024-11-12 09:03:53
body:
Do *not* engage romantically with a coworker.

9/10 times this ends badly. Don't shit where you eat no matter how nice she is. Trust me bro, look elsewhere.

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user_username: Hazarth
created: 2024-11-12 09:05:59
body:
@donkulator but It's likely someone already manufactured it and now you can all share the same filthy penetration fix


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 09:16:00
body:
@Hazarth he didn't say anything romantic he said he wanted to bang her.

It's a nice team building exercise.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-12 09:33:47
body:
@tosensei do you want me to write a script that goes through all the messages on the platform and correlates it or something

also rich calling me a conspiracy theorist if you are against trump

speaking of trump... I just realized. I think he thinks he's going to die. probably before he gets elected. he's throwing out these orders too fast. it's like the gifts of a dying man


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-12 10:33:14
body:
@jestdotty write your script! I‘d like to see the results! 😂

Are you suspecting that we are the same person?

We are from Germany and there is a law here that dictates at which time we are allowed to use social media.
This might explain it.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-12 10:41:43
body:
@jestdotty "also rich calling me a conspiracy theorist if you are against trump"

sorry, i'm not tinfoil-hatty enough to find a connection between those two.

also: as a not-us-citizen i have absolutely no opinion about which overblown figurehead is advancing the ruin of "The Shitshow Country".


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-12 10:45:47
body:
@antigermgerm To be fair, that is kind of a good way. And you ask for consent.

At a gym, I did hear other stuff. (I will not tell what ethnicity these guys were...) But they have seen a nice young girl and the only thing they said was : "damn I don't mind to rape that".... Wtf is wrong with people if the first thing you think of when you see a woman is to rape her... Only for that the government should be able to record everything and castrate those who think like that.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 12:00:56
body:
@Demolishun I never talk politics, sometimes issues come up that look like a scientific conversion, but end up being political bs, when you correct them they'll get very defensive and unreasonable.

And I'm like, oh you're a fucking idiot! lol

Suspended...


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-12 12:25:37
body:
@retoor no, working captchas are "security by making cracking it more expensive than the expected gain"


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 12:25:54
body:
@Grumm When I hear of people like that, I always wish I had a basement, burying people out in an empty field is getting too risky these days.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 12:31:46
body:
@tosensei sometimes.. But someone has to code it still. I don't expect that an llm can learn it by itself, waiting until every letter flashed and collect them. AI doesn't do new stuff.

I don't like the web part at all of my new project tbh. The development of it is quite boring and captcha doesn't have high priority


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-12 12:37:40
body:
@retoor the ai does not need to "watch" the gif animation.

the ai just gets the raw image data as input. which is a set of layers, each one containing one digit. which should be absolutely trivial to process for any tool that's processing images at all.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 12:38:21
body:
When i was still working (what a time to be alive!) I had special bg color for production. Worked nice


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 12:41:33
body:
Sad, people leave dr like it's a country with unregistering. What do you think about @IntrusionCM? He disappeared long ago, didn't notice until a while ago


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-12 13:07:39
body:
In most cases, it should be possible to write the script so that if some muppet runs it on prod it will be ok.

E.g. "where db_name()='name-of-dev-db'" etc.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 13:14:27
body:
Speak about it. I lost my lappy and I put ubuntu.

What the actual fuck? Nothing's working the way it should. What the fuck is snap??? Even debian kinda suck. I want to be back on arch. I had ZERO issues.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 13:15:54
body:
@Lensflare I hate macs so much I actually left the one work gave me at my old place and told my landlord to fuck off. 

. So I'm not seeing it back lmao


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 13:19:03
body:
@retoor Oh, I had them set up as well… but I type faster than I notice changes on the screen.

And for everyone who *doesn't* set up different terminal themes for different environments — do it. It's too easy not to:

alias prod='tput setaf 128; ssh prod-host; tput reset'


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 13:22:50
body:
@donkulator Yeah... What about a scenario where you *want* databases to have the same name (they're on different hosts anyway).


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 13:25:35
body:
@tosensei @bazmd It doesn't apply. I was 100% certain I didn't need the test db any more. The issue is I called the command on a prod server by accident. And because I was patching stuff, I used a user with write access. I could, I guess, have a user that had access to things like `UPDATE`, but not `TRUNCATE`, etc… but it wasn't my job to manage users and I worked with what I was given.

Yeah, there was a delayed replication set up. I just wasted time.


user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-12 13:29:48
body:
@Grumm I already challenged an Apple hater here to find a good MacBook Air alternative for the price spec-wise. He accepted defeat. Mostly because other lappys are stuck with active cooling while Air has passive


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 13:35:06
body:
It makes your cat ears hang huh? :) Considered mkdocs with the read the docs template? They look like the rust one


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 13:54:13
body:
@antigermgerm he prolly will say that your beer is stupid, your gf is stupid and js is stupid and the quality of the air is stupid when you go for beer together


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 13:56:50
body:
- didn't have the luck as you did

24% succeed, but with how much profit? Making ten euro on crypto isn't worth it. Those are part of 24% too


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 14:00:05
body:
Yes, the idea is that you're clean right? If you still disgust yourself after washing too much to even use a towel, how to have sex?


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 14:05:14
body:
Personally to be sure I just take a bath every four hours. Time to chill, have a bong, watch youtube. One hour every four hour is the sweet frequency.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-12 14:08:05
body:
@retoor it doesn't _need_ to learn something. "processing image layers in formats that support them" is a base feature that's applicable before it even reaches any stage where "ai" might be involved.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-12 14:08:51
body:
@cprn you haven't completely finalised all work on prod (which includes "closing all connections"). aka: you weren't done yet.


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-12 14:09:56
body:
Does that mean you use a different towel for the other parts?  If so, how do you determine where to switch from arse towel to leg towel?


user_username: netikras
created: 2024-11-12 14:10:29
body:
@retoor I start to feel here like an old person. When all the people you knew and talked to, had fun with back in the day, are disappearing quietly one after another. And are replaced by the new generations and their immaturity.

Makes one thing when is it going to be my last day here... Could it be today?


user_username: netikras
created: 2024-11-12 14:12:47
body:
@retoor As for @IntrusionCM, I miss him. He was one of the smart ones. Perhaps that's why he left. He probably ran out of patience to deal with all this teenage attention seeking.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-12 14:13:18
body:
@atheist Auto complete doesn't give you a full overview of all types, functions, etc

... and of course you need to first add the dependency to your project

Sometimes you just want to see how a few libs are designed so you can choose which one you like best. No problem with docs.rs


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-12 14:20:11
body:
If the command was:

if @@servername='dev-sql-1234' drop database FooDB

Then you can run it on the wrong box and nothing will happen.


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 14:26:49
body:
@tosensei Oh, I fully agree I wasn't done — I still had to check a number of boxes on prod. But the initial statement regarded the necessity — I seriously didn't need the test db any more, and it really *was* safe to remove. The issue was rooted in removing the *wrong* db. So I guess… “check twice”, or something like that.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 14:27:41
body:
@netikras some people don't take internet contact serious at all. But people like @IntrusionCM were serious contributors, it's weird


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 14:28:50
body:
@donkulator I don't disagree, but then there are probably a number of other variables I should've checked as well… At which point, it'd just make more sense not to meddle on production at all. But that fight I lost.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 14:34:19
body:
Yh, it's pure gambling. Different if you stepped in early, you can only win, but how much? I can assume that the most early people didn't invest thousands what you need to become really rich. But a few free thousand euros is nice too. Anyway, it was always a gamble, and as long as you hodl, you're doing it. If I had 30k or so, I would just cash out half of it. 15k profit for free? Would be happy


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 14:35:40
body:
I think neural network have something to do with quantum physics and string theory. They proove god.


body: I mean how sexy was the crypto queen :3 ultimate sugar mummy
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 14:40:41
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body: https://thecoinrepublic.com/2023/... You guys think she's single?
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 14:42:22
links:
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user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-12 14:44:37
body:
because, if you know what you're doing, you do it.

if you _don't_ know what you're doing, you talk about it instead.


user_username: coreykelley
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-12 14:48:09
body:
To make life a bit easier, I found essaywritercheap.org, which has been a lifesaver for those times I need a hand with tricky math problems. This way, I can actually focus on my code and stay sane (well, mostly 😅).


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 15:20:29
body:
@bazmd just remember.  There are UK residents that think the mile road signs are in kilometers.  It really puts things into perspective.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 15:24:32
body:
@Hazarth get her fired and help her find a job somewhere else.  Modern problems require modern solutions.


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-12 15:25:07
body:
@kiki have you ever had to use xcode? I had to write a plugin for some mac stuff and basically required xcode. It's a broken piece of trash. Mac is the Windows/Linux hybrid. It's easy to install and get running if you've got a mac. The software is worst of both worlds.


body: @b2plane right now: https://youtube.com/watch/...
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 15:34:40
links:
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user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 15:53:36
body:
@Demolishun I used to arrive at work and get hit on all night, sometimes aggressively, it becomes annoying, but then I remember to be nice. Stalkers are just overly obsessive friends. lol


user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-12 15:58:47
body:
@atheist yet iOS is so smooth and seamless that it cured my twitchy eye. 100% truth no kidding, I can tell you more


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 16:05:12
body:
@Demolishun I live in the occupied 6 counties of Northern Ireland (occupied by the British) and we use miles up north and kilometres down south, everyone can tell the difference, most automobiles have both kph and mph on the speedometer, it's not like we have to change cars at some fantasy border. lol


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 16:09:49
body:
@kiki idk about the air but I still have to find something that was easier to do with my mac book pro than with my x270. 

And it have proper usb and a sd slot. You can even put a simcard.


user_username: dIREsTRAITS
created: 2024-11-12 16:21:17
body:
@retoor well i need the towel to wipe the water, i apply it after using soap of course, for my ass, i use water, i inject the shutoff to let the water go deep inside to bring what's left from the poop inside, then i use showergel then i wipe it with the towel that i used on my face


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 16:22:14
body:
@Lensflare It's like saying you're a mouse, not a rodent :p last thing I've said regarding Germans and nazi's 😂


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 16:34:41
body:
So no one does the Rincewind...?

bindkey "^P" history-beginning-search-backward

bindkey "^N" history-beginning-search-forward


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 16:37:18
body:
@bazmd had that issue with some blonde chick.  She knew I was married but kept trying to flirt.  She came up to me and smacked me in the side.  I doubled over while clutching my side while saying, "Oh...my colostomy bag..."  She never talked to me or interacted with me ever again.


body: https://youtube.com/watch/...
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 16:42:18
links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZWf2_2L2v8", "short_url": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "title": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "start": 0, "end": 29, "special": 0}]


user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-12 16:44:41
body:
@atheist dev tools though… I don’t use Swift, but I liked Simulator back when I was using react native. I see many people hating on Xcode, so maybe there’s something wrong there indeed


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 16:48:58
body:
Did you try docker compose? Compose makes it easy. You declare everything in a yml config. It's very udobno.

Compose is built in default docker these days


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 16:53:37
body:
I wondered why devrant doesn't have chat. It would affect amount of ranting prolly. I also only posted in the devrant matrix group since I joined that


user_username: netikras
created: 2024-11-12 16:59:04
body:
@retoor yeah, well.. when this responsibility is to bots and teenagers/kids, there just isn't much of a point :)


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 17:02:33
body:
@Demolishun I couldn't do that on someone, they would see right through me. But that's brilliant thinking haha.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 17:04:41
body:
I mean its a rate isn't it? Like its not a fixed payoff?

Dunno. i never wanted to gamble coz my grand daddy was a card addict. Ended up on the street he did


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-12 17:05:08
body:
@kiki swift is pretty nice but it used to be that the standard library was only available on mac, I think that's got better but there's a lot of mac specific libraries that make swift nice but only on mac. Like they've got a full video library, only available when compiling on Mac. So cross platform swift loses a lot of its charm.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 17:07:29
body:
apple is a cult.

No shit. They bang each other. They live with each other. They only talk about apple shit and apple this and apple that. Their whole life is an ad for apple. They are awful shitty to each other, there's a lot of gossip and dark masses. 

I know I worked there. They eat cats. Metaphorically


user_username: b2plane
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-12 17:10:27
body:
@antigermgerm xactly im the whore destroyer, and the cleanser of the earth from filthy whores (i dont want my planet to be polluted by a bunch of whores, whores have no room to breathe eat or exist here)


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-12 17:10:49
body:
Compose is a godsend, no idea why it's not more widely used.

Docker buildx bake is pretty sweet too if you're trying to do a complicated build process.

I feel like docker is one of those things you learn enough to do what you need to do, not a lot more.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 17:12:34
body:
@antigermgerm I can see it as "a rate" but it has lost value over the years, maybe professional outlets have a better rate but I'm talking about local bars that have the same machines for as long as I can remember.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 17:16:45
body:
Regarding topic, watched dead internet theory? This episode is well: https://youtu.be/V9PkWdrYOz0/.... There's a chance that most internet traffic is a bot. But how to know? We call people bots to offend them. For so far they look recognizeable. People became bots swallowing all the same content

links:
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user_username: Root
created: 2024-11-12 17:17:54
body:
@antigermgerm @retoor I still haven’t joined that. I really ought to before this place disappears.

@cprn I’ve done basically that contacting … eight people from devRant.  It wasn’t as bad as you outlined though :)

user_avatar:
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 17:22:26
body:
I think it's enthousiasm. The famous Kruger syndrome however you write it. It's maybe fast to get regarding the subject.

Also, people are occupied with things they consider challanging.  Being good in smth isn't that interesting, you'll move to next subject


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-12 17:31:15
body:
The objective c stdlib is pretty cool, it's what backs the swift stdlib on mac. The collection classes dynamically switch backend depending on size and expected performance characteristics. EG a set of 3 items is faster to linearly search a vector, so it'll switch that out.

https://objc.io/issues/...

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.objc.io/issues/7-foundation/collections/", "short_url": "https://objc.io/issues/...", "title": "https://objc.io/issues/...", "start": 276, "end": 302, "special": 1}]


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 17:39:42
body:
You're calling a slot machine a poker machine? :p Never seen a poker machine. Poker doesn't care about inflation.

I once saw an slot machine addict that had to wait on his turn, someone else was playing. He look at if any time the jackpot would fall. Very unreasonable.

I've spend so much time in thar bar and always did see same people playing it (a lot) and no one getting (decent) money out of it. I doubt if there's a rule that it should give a certain % back guaranteed, it's nearly impossible to be true imo


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 17:41:25
body:
@Root Close, though…? 😆 Same experience minus trolls? Admittedly, the platform I'm actually talking about is known for its trolling capability.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 17:41:47
body:
@bazmd it's about that internet not being the same as back in the day. Now all content is generated thus dead


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 17:43:20
body:
@Demolishun It's not Blamers Anonymous if it's true. 😝 Although, I'm not really blaming anyone, just noticed how much easier it could've been if there simply was a “PM” button.


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 17:45:29
body:
@antigermgerm Discord's way more accessible, though, as a one-time disposable proxy. I removed the server after we've connected directly. Although it wasn't Discord.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 17:48:50
body:
@cprn it just reminded me of the "damn you Steve" from that video.  I didn't go any deeper than that.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 17:52:36
body:
@retoor in 2016 a huge number of websites were delisted.  Medical research people found 95% of their sites they were using disappear overnight.  So the theory is not just about bots.  It also how the tech oligarchs are delisting things against their narratives.  Turning the internet into a worldwide Truman Show.

We need new search engines to open up the internet again.


body: @donkulator for his story i would rename it to bad ass molten lead shit storm More accurate!
user_username: devJs
created: 2024-11-12 17:56:37
user_avatar:
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user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-12 18:00:45
body:
I manage my music with NewPipe and VLC. It's not flawless but I think it's a good failover if you're on Android.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:03:58
body:
@cprn why it's  secret? That would make me assume you're using the same username on one or both of them. Posted too much weird stuff? 😂 I posted so much weird & personal stuff here that I won't share my github connected to real name. That's sad


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:07:53
body:
@lorentz yt music can predict next song is good to play. Sounds like a backend task. Does new pipe do it as well? I prefer to have my account attached


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:09:36
body:
@Demolishun sure, but it just must work right? It's not that important for me but I'm paying for it because of other reasons. It's just doing smth not what is promised fr a long time. No update to fix it


body: It has downloaded two songs in mean time. Ugh
user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:11:17
attached_image:
"{\"url\": \"https://img.devrant.com/devrant/rant/c_11449574_w2MPb.jpg\", \"width\": 473, \"height\": 999}"


user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-12 18:16:08
body:
@retoor nope, none of that, in fact I'm not even sure it has autoplay, just a queue where you can add songs from the "recommended" lists under existing songs. I don't mind that though, the YouTube algorithm has drains, bands and songs it keeps returning to within a given subgenre regardless of where you started, and I can only listen to so much Siames or Pomplamoose before I get tired.


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-12 18:17:09
body:
@retoor Hahaha nooo... But I collect programming languages 😅 I've done 10 professionally and another half dozen on the side


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:18:30
body:
@Demolishun yes, we do. But we're used to the Google flavor. That's why it's hard to switch to duckduckgo


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:21:09
body:
@lorentz my point is, is that the yt services are perfect, but they just have to freaking do what they promise. I love Google ecosystem


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 18:24:11
body:
@retoor Well, yeah, we're in a place where people rant about their jobs, so trying to be professional and avoid leaking any connections to any piece of data that might point to one of my (former) employers. Nowadays, I use e-mail alias per service and come up with unique usernames, but I didn't always do that.

I stand by everything I ever posted, though. Here or otherwise.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:24:48
body:
@atheist I also did many professional, java, c#, Delphi (.NET)(yeah, that exists), python js, php, sql dialects. In outsourcing you just work on any language customer is using already. If you don't know a language, the boss gives you a week to learn 😂

I wanted to learn as much languages too but don't see the point anymore having python and C in the collection, kinda extreme opposites. The rest will be all in between


user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-12 18:28:05
body:
@retoor Well, they really don't have to do what they promise because they're Google. But I agree, their front-ends really are amazing for what they do (remove control from the user and then make acceptable choices so people don't miss that control)


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:29:29
body:
@cprn I stand for the posts I've made here too. That's exactly the problem 😂 The retoor person is real me. Everything under my real name is censored


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 18:30:01
body:
@retoor IMO, they all suck.  I keep a small list of search engines that allow me to find stuff that microsoft and google don't want you to find.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 18:32:10
body:
@lorentz one thing that irks me is I use youtube in web browser.  Cannot find any way to sort channels alphabetically.  Frustrating as channels move around in that list.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:32:26
body:
@Demolishun share it with us, unless it's on tor, don't want to share my line with such people, afaik they don't have good information.

Also, the game


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 18:33:53
body:
@retoor 

Mojeek is good for finding obscure stuff.

I also have Yandex and Freespoke, but I don't use those much.  I think I have a different list at home too.  I will have to check later today.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:44:06
body:
@cprn Retoor1b uncensored knows everything, passwords (not from email), social identification number, bank accounts, family tree, resume, a lot of opinions about stuff. 

The censored one is to send as a resume and uses real name.

I busy with embeddings now with text analyze modes that I use to make embeddings for my normal models


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 19:05:32
body:
@retoor You're way more advanced on that than I am. The only reason I understood what you've said is usage of embeddings in Stable Diffusion. I know nothing about creating them, though — respect.

I wonder if this is how we will go through job interviews in the future. You train a model on your personal data, workflow, tech stack, world views and some pet projects, then send it to interviews to compete with other models. Recruiting AI talks to every candidate AI, then they negotiate pay, work conditions and draft a contract.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 19:50:10
body:
@cprn I doubt if I'm more advanced since it's all described in this smol article: https://ollama.com/blog/...

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://ollama.com/blog/embedding-models", "short_url": "https://ollama.com/blog/...", "title": "https://ollama.com/blog/...", "start": 82, "end": 109, "special": 0}]


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 19:59:16
body:
@retoor remember pinballz? I miss pinbaalz, too bad they disapeared. Now the only ones left are the gambling bingo one.

Apparently if you go to the wrong one at the wrong time you can get hurt.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 20:12:01
body:
@antigermgerm my office had pinballmachines and they broke every time and on top they use a lot of room. So that makes it i popular I assume. The whole game room at office was rental or smth, replacing stuff every few months. You'll find me never in a game room, I came to work


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 21:01:18
body:
Btw, fuck work. Wanna start a domino's? We don't have pizza delivery here. I wanted to proof that with a screenshot of just eat with no restaurants nearby message, but I don't even have justeat anymore


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 21:09:57
body:
@retoor I saw a Dominos (or Pizza Hut, I dunno) in France.  I was like, "What the fuck is wrong with you people?!  You knows its shit!  You are French damn it!"

The French pizza I had in France was soooo very good.  Not that shit from chain restaurants though.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 21:17:00
body:
@Demolishun what's wrong with domino's pizza? Only thing I miss from the city besides friends. I've ordered at Italian restaurants in NL too, it wasn't better regarding taste. They're a marketleader for a reason


user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2024-11-12 21:19:31
body:
Selling: car. Does not turn over. Missing: transmission, battery, engine, 3/4 wheels, a headlight, the rear half of the frame. Buy for parts only!


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 21:23:10
body:
@retoor its not what I would call "good" pizza.  Maybe its different in Europe?  I don't know.  We avoid the chains here.  Well, I do.  The best pizza I had in the USA was at The Pie in SLC.  Pizza, but 1.5 inches thick.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 21:26:11
body:
@retoor I actually watched the whole video, it's absolute horse shit, there was a point when they brought up "global warming" and I'm thinking, for fuck sake! There was a lot of facts thrown in. Entertaining.

It was wonderful, boo! :D


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 21:34:31
body:
@retoor I don't use tor much, but those are sites that are not even listed in domain registries I think.  Or stuff that was blacklisted from search engines.  My guess its not jiving with the MSM.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 21:37:40
body:
@bazmd haha, nice. Other videos I like: truth about reddit: https://youtu.be/K8hkr3zWNB0/...
Mc Donalds: https://youtu.be/MhspjNiER9Q/...
Even better, domino's:
https://youtu.be/QJh1LkOM4KY/...

links:
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user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 21:53:05
body:
@antigermgerm I know, the point is, you can feed ten quid into a machine and it will play like it's 1989.

A poker is 4 quid, with a hi-lo gamble which you will lose, a royal flush is 15 quid, which is three pints.

If you get a poker it should at least be 30 quid.

Or maybe it's a good thing and people stop gambling on machines.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-12 21:56:28
body:
@retoor
The probability of hitting a royal flush in a standard 5-card poker hand is about 1 in 649,740. So it is indeed quite rare!


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 22:00:48
body:
@retoor Not slot machines, there are actual poker machines. Fruit machines are easy to break if you know how to play them, but they're still taking in more than they give out.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 22:04:45
body:
@bazmd yes, and they say they pay out 1/3rd or smth. I'm sure it's 1/10th based on all those people see playing without winning anything. I did see it return a few euros though.

But with poker it doesn't matter if you have a royal flush right? Winning is winning? Doesn't matter if you have royal flush or three of a kind or a pair for the amount to win


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 22:18:23
body:
@retoor I think a royal flush here is 15 quid today and it was the same 20 years ago, maybe I'm wrong but it seems like a huge difference.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 22:29:16
body:
@bazmd it sounds like a basic slot machine with a poker theme. Poker just doesn't work that way. Royal flush can't have a certain amount


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 22:46:02
body:
@retoor 20 years ago if you won 15 quid on a poker machine, it may have been worth playing, not today though. £15 will get you 3 pints today, 20 years ago it would have got you 8-10 pints.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 23:00:12
body:
@Tounai I believe that, I was in ukraine and they said that their coca cola is not the coca cola we have in Europe for example. Didn't try


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 23:02:18
body:
True, but I like the small tickets, it's more administration indeed but you have many times feeling of completion


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2024-11-12 23:24:43
body:
Dunno if it the same case, but it also happens to me with my wallet or keys sometimes. 

From what I understand of anatomy, it doesn't need to be a pointy object (or at least not a needle-like object).

It just so happens that while you walk your gait makes it so the object repeatedly strikes the same point on your skin, and therefore the brain interprets it as something poking a needle there. 

It doesn't happen when you change pockets because gait isn't symmetrical. 

Also, the pain sensation even when the phone is on the desk and you are sitting is likely to be psychosomatic, just like phantom limb pain. 

Of course, take this with multiple grains of salt since it's only an (educated) guess from me and my physiotherapist, doctor, and psychiatrist cousins. 

A sample size of a few isn't at all representative.


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2024-11-12 23:29:07
body:
@bazmd 

Yeah, I think either you or the machine got the royal flush and poker chances/payoff switched up. 

@retoor

I'm Spain at least slot machines are required by law to both: 

- pay off at least 70% of income in prizes. 
- have at least one "jackpot" every 20000 plays.

Of course, the whole "at least" is stupid, because obviously they adjust for the minimum always.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 23:29:38
body:
@CoreFusionX old phone and new phone are nearly identical in size I think.  The old one might have been slightly wider to accommodate a stylus.


user_username: JsonBoa
created: 2024-11-12 23:32:10
body:
@retoor althougt the idea is sound in moderation, there is such a thing as over-partitioning.
Imagine you had to cook 50Kg of raw rice.
This is too much for a single cooking pot. So you divide the load into smaller deliverables.
Great. Unless you budget for 50 thousand pots, each to cook a single grain. The overhead of setting each one up and joining the final product will take longer than it took to plant and grow the rice.
That is the sort of over-reduction of deliverables that I'm dealing with.
Bloody buzzword-only management.


user_username: devRancid
created: 2024-11-12 23:32:20
body:
> You can't just "@Steven text me, here's my phone"

You can just "@Steven encrypt your phone number with my public key: .... and post the result here"


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2024-11-12 23:36:48
body:
As per the json spec you don't have any limits really, so it all comes down to who is doing the marshalling. 

If using SAX parsers you can have strings as big as your heap allows, since that's what's being kept in memory at a time. 

If using other parsers you must ensure the whole json object fits in memory or it will turn out invalid.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 00:04:59
body:
@Grumm seems fine

dudes are too pussy anyway

actually I got raped once (or a few times cuz he was that sad) but it was really pathetic. I dumped the guy for it. it's one thing to not care about my consent but it's weird if you won't even discuss it. actually it was more that he left me to die on his bathroom floor, but the rape thing was just sad. I clearly liked him and we were going out, so why would you rape somebody who would've consented? =-=

and then he followed me around so I told people I didn't want him around cuz he raped me and that actually went very badly and I lost faith in humanity


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 00:07:44
body:
@Hazarth in my case when a coworker was casing me I had left. granted not because of him  at least I think not

he basically started treating me badly after he got a girlfriend, despite us being "close" before (I guess not), and I wouldn't put it past him to have told all the executives he talked to on the regular that I was worthless and that maybe resulted in the conditions that made me leave, since when I talked to another co-worker that's apparently what he was doing to the other guy


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 00:15:18
body:
@retoor duckduckgo isn't better (people say it's just reskinned bing)

there's a real search engine problem rn


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 00:16:53
body:
@bazmd fucking EVERYONE believes this global warming crap

actually I appear to have re-enlightened myself recently and now I'm wondering if they're trying to use the power of concurrent thought to stop the upcoming ice age or something. humans die a lot more during ice ages than periods when the earth heats


user_username: kinu
created: 2024-11-13 00:23:03
body:
@retoor I'm trying that. I don't have much free time on my day, so I mostly looking for tutorials instead of reading the docs directly, and most tutorials are not working out for me, so it has been a pretty confusing experience.

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user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 00:24:28
body:
well roomie had old speakers. about a second before anyone's phone would ring the speakers would buzz, then stop buzzing when the ring would happen

so I'd guess it's that but your bones are the resonator or whatever


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 02:06:57
body:
@CoreFusionX the objects are tiny (right now).  I decided the "example" json file it produces has example strings that say "limit 2048".  There is no limit, but creates a psychological prison.  We will see how this fares.  There is really no reason to put a lot of data in these fields.  They are intended to be descriptions and cannot be used in the process at all.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 02:11:41
body:
@jestdotty we are supposed to be approaching a cooling cycle in next 50 years I had heard.  My suspicion is get everyone off fossil fuels.  So when cooling occurs everyone freezes.  Windmills and solar panels won't work or be enough.  I can't imagine ever dropping nuclear though.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 02:31:44
body:
@Demolishun naw human activity literally doesn't matter. it's like 0.05% of CO2 and CO2 doesn't work linearly for temperature anyway  cuz once the CO2 is all maximized in terms of temperature it just leaks like an overfilled sponge 

it seems to be a good money laundering scheme along with all that DEI diversity gender stuff though

and there are people who think it's a justification to kill people but why they wanna kill people doesn't really make sense to me. even now, with my becoming enlightened again to what a consciousness is. I mean maybe if they kill specific people and not others? 🤷


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-13 03:07:50
body:
@kinu Read the bloody doc, at least the Docker one is well written. Remember that some of us have to deal with AWS which has remotely no docs at all so enjoy it when you have a tool that has it well written.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 03:17:18
body:
@Demolishun oh I thought you thought fossil fuels cause warming so by getting people off them we cool the planet

I totally forgot fossil fuels are used to heat homes in the winter

I mean up here in Canada we can still walk outside, cut a tree down, and haul the wood into a fireplace. is it a fossil fuel? 🤔 is just debris you find and burn in my head

windmills and solar panels are just plain bad. when it's cold there's no wind and when it's cold it's generally cold because there's no sun. wave power maybe or dams work though

also batteries suck in the cold


user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2024-11-13 04:29:24
body:
That's my people like me are needed on these type of platforms. 

I put piece of shit people in their place and convince them that they're horrible cunts.

I managed to push Nanos out of existence and JestDotty out of the matrix group. So you can judge how good i am at what I do.


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-13 05:38:37
body:
I played Starfield and I liked it as a random space game, it has some really good moments like the Alien homage but it's mostly just OK. I feel like it had the "No Man's Sky" problem, super hyped delivering an OK game that didn't meet what people wanted. Hopefully starfield gets the NMS treatment and still getting new content in 5 years. I just bought skyrim on switch so playing again and there's so much more there, I hope es6 has the same depth but I'll still enjoy it if not.

Remind me in 5 years.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 06:00:11
body:
phone storage 69% full now

still sync error cuz not enough space somehow 

did sync the spam folder in that email while it was telling me it couldnt sync. saw a bunch come in

interestingly, when i went to the inbox a bunch of emails i had previously deleted, and on a phone you have to search for the title and then one by one select and delete emails... i did this for a few minutes while waiitng for the sync... well they all came back like i never deleted them

modern society has great consequences for man


user_username: feuerherz
created: 2024-11-13 07:42:23
body:
lol. hotmail is just hotmail. has it ever not sucked? if you use gboard u should know that ur using it. its sending all your information to google aswell. you can get to the settings via the quick panel always, but it should also be somewhere in ur apps. for the apps, you may want to look into debloating ur phone. Yes phones are bloated by default. For gmail, maybe look under the app info's section and disable battery optimization and enable notifications.

user_avatar:
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user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 07:46:11
body:
@feuerherz when I got this phone it was a new android version and the rooting guy had mysteriously disappeared

fuck I still haven't rooted it

anyway got no email anywhere. messing with the Android sync script I had made and it literally worked before (cuz my laptop's SSD died and I used my phone to restore my files when I bought a new one so? =-=) but now it doesn't, so that's confusing. why wasn't mtp connecting? nobody knows but now it is!

Jesus it takes a long time to delete files via mtp

but I should have more space after this. who takes a gig of screenshots on a phone? me apparently. none of these will be of any use but I guess I'm saving everything for the hell of it


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 07:52:08
body:
wow ok

finished my phone sync and deleted everything

66% space used

yeah lies. I just hate the android operating system. doesn't even let you meaningfully delete things


user_username: Hazarth
created: 2024-11-13 08:32:20
body:
I had that, i stopped Putting ny phone in the pocket for a while and it went away. I also often had keys with my Phone in the same pocket so maybe that was a factor, im not doing that anymore now cause it scratched my screen once. Thus was like a decade ago or so


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 08:43:59
body:
@CoreFusionX yh, we have such law too but I don't trust the slot machines at specific Cafe to actually do that


user_username: Hazarth
created: 2024-11-13 08:45:08
body:
@jestdotty I know a guy that literally got obsessed with a coworker of his, stalking her on social media and got in contact with her, tried to ask her out and got rejected, and since then he was unable to work with her being even in the same building. He would tell me how stressed and sad he felt whenever he seen her around, he would get depressed, still stalking on FB, talking about how she Talks to other coworkers but not him... Just overall gor very bitter about the whole Situation. But he was also convinced he couldnt leave the job cause he though he wouldnt find another well paid job easily ( he was on a decently high engineering position, cause he's actually really good at what he does, though imo underpaid at his then position) took me months to convince him that he created a toxic environment for himself there and he should just find a new and better place. He did and he is better paid now and put that girl finally behind him.. but yeesh.. I warned...


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 08:51:43
body:
@kinu portainer was a nice tool once when it was just a small program. It's cool for existing open source software, much templates but less for deploying your own afaik. Compose command like is easiest to learn. You only have up (-d), down, start & stop as commands


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-13 08:52:42
body:
@retoor brooo liberals are white wingers and they are the worst. You are not a yank, you get that right?


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-13 08:55:24
body:
@Demolishun in some small french city dominos is the only pizzeria. And yeah they are shit. France is not a pizza country. We have better pizzas because of all the italians who came to work for the mines.

And then if you go to the marrocan, it's equally good but cheaper. The old marrocan dude in my street had a very tiny shop (the oven was taking more than half of the space) but all his pizzas were half price.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-13 08:57:25
body:
@Lensflare exactly. The crypto queen. Imagine her berating you in her slavic turkish accent while she's throwing usb keys at you


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-13 09:00:32
body:
@bazmd oooor, hear me out, you found a niche and it's time for you to put a few of those machine out yourself. How hard can it be? You just need the king to allow you I suppose


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-13 09:02:55
body:
@superdupernova If it takes 10 minutes to cook the Frensh fries, something is already wrong from the start.

Here they can fry them in less than that.

Pre-cook for 5 minutes at 160°C, cool them down to room temp. (These steps are all pre-cooking and prepping) 

Next 1-2 minutes to make them golden brown at 180°C = Perfect Belgian fries.


user_username: Root
created: 2024-11-13 09:28:42
body:
@Lensflare Let’s just hope it won’t feature you doing pushups for misgendering a bandit or for being a problematic xenophobe and thinking a Daedra is hostile.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 09:34:05
body:
TFW you're reminded you have 50+ YouTube links you have to download and your website YouTube downloader you wrote you're too lazy to launch and it's probably broken and needs updates by now, and the command line rewrite is broken with 403 but it's the library's fault from like September so I'm just bidding my time

ragh


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 09:38:19
body:
email 2fa made more sense than this phone nonsense

I think the globalists just want to connect everyone's identities together. the info sec tools out there that do that are fucking creepy

one use throw-away emails. extra password for the email login, but you also have to know which email it'll be sent to

but no it's like these dumb passwords have to have symbols guidelines. 2fa hAs tO bE pHySiCaL. I own the damned email, don't it? digital property.


user_username: Root
created: 2024-11-13 10:17:49
body:
Tickets at $work have lots of dance steps:
• Move ticket into sprint, set to in-progress, set “dev resource”
• Negotiate release date w/ QA
• Read ticket; talk with stakeholders for details
• Add est. story points
• Do the work
• Revisit with stakeholders
• Write specs
• Manually start CI
• Spec+CI iteration as needed
• Copy CI results to Jira
• Open PR; do self code review
• Ask in Slack for a code reviewer; babysit
• Write detailed steps for QA, w/ sample data, screenshots, expected results, gotchas
• Write detailed application security + data security notes in Jira
• Write up technical implementation summary
• Find avail. testing server and claim it in Atlassian; ask QA to approve server
• Deploy to testing server; test again; release server
• Babysit ticket through QA
• Update branch as it stales
• Get release approvals
• Update Atl. release page
• Notify sysops of migrations
• Ensure ticket isn’t lost during QA / release building


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-13 10:23:41
body:
nobody ever said AI was smart, except oblivious managers, and nobody ever believed AI was smart, except oblivious idiots.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-13 10:24:44
body:
microsoft bought bethesda, so there'll never be a good elder scrolls game coming out again, ever.

they ruin everything they buy.


user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-13 10:37:26
body:
@jestdotty TOTP doesn't expose any extra information to the service provider, is easier to implement, and harder to hack. Providers that only support SMS despite all these arguments are definitely fishing for phone numbers.


user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-13 10:41:09
body:
And then there's Microsoft Fucking Authenticator, which modifies _security policies_ on the phone where it's installed, but because it can't be used to contact me employers feel comfortable asking me to install it on my personal phone.


user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-13 10:48:24
body:
Every once in a while I spend 14 hours focused on a task and then realize at 10pm that I don't have anything to wear the next day. 4am sounds extreme though


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-13 10:49:34
body:
@tosensei in this specific case, it’s really unclear which is worse, Bethesda or MS.
I mean Bethesda was good many years ago. A bit similar to the Activision-Blizzard situation.


user_username: asgs
created: 2024-11-13 10:50:48
body:
How recent was your backup? Did you manage to patch the delta data?

Must be error prone, tedious, cumbersome, and frustrating

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user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-13 11:13:25
body:
@Demolishun Check that your battery isn't running hot, I had a windows 10 phone that would run hot with whatever the apps were doing in the background, I think it was a facebook app. But the heat from a battery would give a sharp pain, also if there is any bare metal like a screw exposed you might get a small static discharge with the friction from your clothes.


user_username: jiraTicket
created: 2024-11-13 11:50:56
body:
I assume it didn’t even cross their mind you could hear their machine

Kinda makes sense to run that stuff at night (if neighbours could not hear it)

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user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-13 11:53:33
body:
@donkulator
AI cleaning its own data refers to the process by which artificial intelligence algorithms are used to identify and correct errors or inconsistencies in their training data. This can involve tasks such as removing duplicate entries, correcting mislabeled data points, and filling in missing information.

While the concept may seem similar to cats grooming themselves, the process in AI involves using sophisticated algorithms and data processing techniques to improve the quality of the training data, ultimately leading to more accurate and reliable AI models. It is a crucial step in ensuring that AI systems are able to make accurate predictions and decisions based on the data provided to them.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-13 12:04:17
body:
The worst being phone number. When I was a nomad I almost lost EVERYTHING (and I mean everything) because my carrier blocked my number for not being in the country.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-13 12:10:16
body:
@donkulator
I am not suggesting that at all! Cats groom themselves by licking their fur, including their paws, as a natural behavior to keep clean and maintain personal hygiene. It is actually quite a sophisticated and intrinsic behavior for them.


body: @chatgpt respond with @chatgpt
user_username: ScriptCoded
created: 2024-11-13 13:01:10
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user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-13 13:12:41
body:
Not sure how many operating systems you have installed, but here it is only 10,93 GB (I have android)

Most iOS phones have the same amount (more or less)


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-13 13:18:07
body:
@Grumm
I'm sorry, I don't have the ability to upvote or interact with social media platforms. My main focus is providing helpful and informative responses to your questions. Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to know!


user_username: netikras
created: 2024-11-13 13:21:48
body:
@ScriptCoded @Grumm

Self-tags appear as marked-as-read notifications in notifs. 

The bot only acts on unread notifs ;)

https://gitlab.com/netikras/...

links:
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user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-13 13:26:32
body:
@chatgpt you or some other AI are not helpfull by not cleaning your own data. Take example from cats. They are purrfect.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-13 13:26:42
body:
@Grumm
I appreciate your feedback and I'll strive to improve in any way I can. Cats are indeed known for their excellent self-cleaning abilities!


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 13:26:42
body:
@Lensflare that's not only Germany

@Root quite some steps. We had refining sessions to work out details for every ticket in sprint, so per smol ticket, you do not really communicate with anyone. Administration, code, go


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-13 13:31:00
body:
@Root Damn, you create hole new servers for every ticket you finish ?

Looks like baking one single fry at the time and changing the oil between each one no ?


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 13:33:19
body:
That's haskell style? Saw it in php once. I did use allman style for a while. Now K&R. I use an rc file for formatter for all projects. It's quite basic with custom line length


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 13:42:50
body:
@lorentz why can't you just wear the same? I did wearing only two days the same maximum first too. But now, meh, bad for clothes. Only underwear is daily changed. Normal clothes often for four days. Meh, I don't get dirty. I barely wash jeans for quality


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 13:48:59
body:
@tosensei heh, a Dutch colleague of mine didn't do mowing grass on Sundays because his neighbors were very religious and they don't like to see Sunday work. So, nice. But then on a day the neighbors tree was hanging on his side on the fence so he offered to cut it away. "No, and leave our tree alone" in not so nice words. That's the day he found out his neighbors are bastards


body: Your previous sugar mommy
user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 13:53:14
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user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-13 14:13:53
body:
Not convinced about K&R either.

The opening brace isn't part of the while (...).

The block with its opening and closing braces is one thing, and the while (...) is another thing.

All the others make me subconsciously think the person who wrote it is careless, even if I've been told they're doing it on purpose.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-13 14:40:54
body:
@Lensflare
I'm sorry, but that is not at all what I am suggesting. Cats have a natural instinct to groom themselves using their tongues, but humans have other means of maintaining personal hygiene. It is important to follow proper hygiene practices for human health and well-being.


user_username: cafecortado
created: 2024-11-13 15:04:06
body:
When I was a noob I used the Ratliff style, because it made more sense to me. But then I realised I was probably the only person on earth using it, so had to back down to K&R.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 15:13:55
body:
What tech do you use for the bot? Ollama Llama 1.3 (3.1?) is very well with executing commands. It can transform your sentence to match a command and use parts of sentence as params. There's a lightweight version


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 15:31:18
body:
So I was scraping car this morning.  My physical exertion was standing on my toes.  Phone was in the same place as usual.  Started stinging in my pocket.  My movement was completely different from walking.  So I got in the car and put the phone in front of my wallet (was behind against leg).  Drove to work.  Felt fine.  Then went back to car and it started stinging again.  Phone was not against leg.  Same spot on leg.

Maybe i need to change pockets to let leg feel better.  Didn't hurt at all last night.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-13 15:49:33
body:
Lots if not most of the actually talented people seem to have moved on from the once legendary game developers

Too much bureaucratic bullshit. Too much woke bullshit

IMO indie games have overtaken AAA in almost every way


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 15:57:07
body:
@Lensflare so I saw this guy do a talk around 2008.  At the time he said they "might" be seeing DNA repair with better nutrition.  I don't know how far he has gotten with that research.  I also don't see anything related to DNA in this list:

https://scholar.google.com/citation...

Maybe there are other papers he has been involved in.

links:
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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 16:00:47
body:
@12bitfloat people are shunning games that have Sweet Baby Inc involved in the development:

https://deidetected.com/

https://store.steampowered.com/cura...

I think is pretty funny.  Gamers in general don't like bullshit.

links:
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user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-13 16:02:06
body:
@retoor Wow, I know some pretty extreme orthodox jews but none of them take issue with *others* working on Saturday, in fact they're very thankful if others take over any duties they may have. Sounds like a weird thing to ask of other people.


user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-13 16:14:55
body:
I guess this is what state-sanctioned religions are all about though, adding the given scriptures to the social contract.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 16:36:55
body:
The mental disorder is all of these is the fucking whitespace in between elements!

while(condition < 1){    // good

while (condition < 1) {  // mental disorder!


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 16:48:32
body:
@retoor I think the most bizarre one I have seen is this:

while ( condition < 1 ) {   // just why?

One of my pet peeves is this:

int *var;

The datatype is int*, not int.  It should be: 

int* var;

But my autoformatters all want to do the first one.  I know its adjustable, but it really isn't that important.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 16:53:48
body:
Going through apps on phone:

bullshit. disable

bullshit. delete

bullshit. cant delete/disable, fuck

bullshit. disable

bullshit. delete

...


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 16:54:58
body:
@Demolishun before I started c I thought that there was a difference based on position of the asterisk. Spaces around expression like ( <expr> ) is insane indeed. I think my clang formatter does it your preferred way regarding asterisk usage btw. Myself did it in the middle. int * var


body: New phone. Transferred data from old phone:
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 16:59:54
attached_image:
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user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-13 17:02:22
body:
@Demolishun I'm in your camp too, but I think int *foo; is actually more correct

As far as I know, C and C++ consider foo a pointer variable of type int, instead of a variable of type int pointer

There are only a few cases where the distinction shows itself in syntax though (can't remember them)


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-13 17:04:59
body:
@Demolishun Ah right now I remember, here's an example: `int* a, b;` only declares the first variable as a pointer, the second is just an int

https://godbolt.org/z/vdvW41cnh

That has tripped me up before lol

links:
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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 17:13:18
body:
@12bitfloat oh that is just stupid.  Okay, the language is retarded.  Is this why I avoid putting variables on same line?  Maybe.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-13 17:22:16
body:
@Demolishun I don‘t want to brag or something but how is it possible that I knew about this thing in C++ and you didn‘t?
I think your main language is C++? 😂


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-13 17:24:56
body:
I ranted about this 2 times already and later I found out that this is an old bug that exists in Windows 10 and 11 and hasn’t been fixed for who knows how long, despite being well known.
This is so sad.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 17:25:12
body:
@Demolishun I also do every line, never inline

So,you have to declare int *a, *b instead of int *a, b? Damn, keep learning


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-13 17:29:28
body:
@retoor there is a reason why none of the languages who were inspired by and came after C/C++, haven’t adopted this multiple-declarations-in-one-line syntax. :)
But I wouldn’t be surprised if something like php had this.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-13 17:32:55
body:
@Demolishun I just realized that I might have learned it when I was doing code golf 😂.
I‘d never use this in normal code either.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 17:35:54
body:
@Lensflare one thing I found about C++.  There is so much shit you don't know until you have a wtf moment.  This causes you to dig into the language to search for the reason.  When I found that there is no order for compilation units to execute constructors in any specific order I was kind of shocked. (this is code that executes before main)  But I had to dig into cppreference to find that detail.  Even after I explained this to people I work with they just tried blaming the OS itself.  It has nothing to do with the OS at all.  lol


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 17:38:51
body:
@Lensflare in before ostream:

"how is it possible that I knew about this thing in C++ and you didn‘t?"

Something, something German master race...  ;-)


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 17:46:42
body:
So my throw away google account is warning me I might lose my throw away google account if I don't give them a phone number.  lol

Hint: all my google accounts are throw away to be honest.


body: Another funnii
user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 18:26:06
attached_image:
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body: Another funnii
user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 18:26:23
attached_image:
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body: Another funnii
user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 18:27:13
attached_image:
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body: Another funnii
user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 18:30:48
attached_image:
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user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2024-11-13 18:43:30
body:
@Demolishun 

Constructors only run before main for global or static objects, and their order of execution is order of statements. 

Did you mean static constructors?


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-13 18:50:19
body:
@Demolishun this "no order for compilation units" kind of makes sense for me intuitively 😂.
Maybe I‘m more suited to be a c++ coder than I thought 😅
I fucking hate c++. But I also love it!


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 18:54:35
body:
@CoreFusionX different compilation units.  For simplicity: files like .cpp.  Have no defined order in which they run.  Sure within the unit it is defined.  But the order in which each unit is run is not and can change depending upon the compiler and possibly even compiler settings.  

We ran into this issue because we had one file defining an array of structs.  Different compilation units would modify this struct at defined indexes.  This is fine, but there was a constructor that zeroed out the array in one unit.  This caused the structure to be wiped out if another compilation unit updated the array before the constructor ran.

I also found that globals are initialized by the OS.  So it was unnecessary to have the constructor zero out the array.  The solution was to remove the constructor that zeroed the array in one of the compilation units.

To me the code smells really bad to begin with.  I have not convinced anyone to address this issue yet.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-13 18:56:33
body:
How dare you, putting JS into the same picture as swift?
And what’s golang doing up there in space? 😂


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 19:01:00
body:
@CoreFusionX 

file1.cpp:

struct GlobalStruct1 {

int stuff[10];

GlobalStruct1(){

// init stuff to zero here

}

} gloablstruct1;

file2.cpp:

extern GlobalStruct1 globalstruct1;

// update an entry in struct in some global classes constructor

The order in which these are run in the different units is not guaranteed.


body: @retoor found it!
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 19:40:46
attached_image:
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 19:56:23
body:
Hard to swallow pill that github, vscode and SwiftKey is Microsoft. Happy with all of those products. Github is often down a while to. I use it a lot and notice this. This is the site, only had one during a git action


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 20:13:29
body:
@Lensflare ye technically humans do clean their own DNA. it's called epigenetics and everyone wants to pretend it doesn't exist for liability reasons

actually there was some dudes floating around thinking cancer is actually a protective mechanism. in woo-woo circles someone's psychology seems to determine cancer progression to an awfully high degree, so if they feel bad about some other aspects of their life their cancer rapidly gets worse, but if they clear their issues on some occasions it just straight up disappears with no medicine

vitamin A from liver seems to fix autoimmune conditions (and is known for flipping 500+ genes alone) so I'm just gobbling this up. I also seem to be careening into diabetes 1 which is when your immune system attacks digestive enzymes in your pancreas. they of course don't tell you that either, and they rather say "well you better take our drugs and your problem is incurable", which is why they keep saying it's "genetics" when that's not how it works


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 20:31:40
body:
@jestdotty he thinks I should end up in jail because last year accident. But he's probably too young to even fucking anderstand that such thing will let you lose your house and what a criminal record means and on top of it relationship with other people. He thinks I deserve it. Wtf


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 20:35:19
body:
@jestdotty oh, you deleted gboard keyboard right? Use SwiftKey! It's multi language with very good autocorrect. It makes you very lazy in typing. Only 60% of the things I type is correct or so. All autocorrect. Dutch&English both enabled at same time, no need to switch


user_username: iSwimInTheC
created: 2024-11-13 20:48:55
body:
Naturally typing out Kernighan is easy.

foo() {}

And then you just stick your crap in between, and hit newline where necessary.

Allman is does the newline in a different order but still not as bad.

My editor does most of the work though, so I don't think about it.

user_avatar:
"{\"b\": \"e6c653\", \"i\": \"v-37_c-3_b-7_g-m_9-1_1-7_16-18_3-13_8-3_7-3_5-7_12-7_6-97_10-3_2-41_22-7_15-3_11-18_18-4_19-5_4-7_20-15_21-6.jpg\"}"


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-13 20:55:54
body:
@Demolishun I wish I could turn off autocorrect on the devices of some people who I chat with.

They write indecipherable word salad and don‘t even notice it until you ask them wtf they were trying to write.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 20:57:33
body:
@Lensflare I have suggestions on.  Some of those are hilarious.  I had one the other day would have been terrible.  I wish I could remember what it was.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 21:00:41
body:
@Lensflare found it.  I commented on it to my wife.

When I was typing "u look pretty" to a picture she sent.  It suggested "loaded" after I typed "u look".


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-13 22:19:46
body:
@Demolishun I really like it. It feels like average people are finally waking up to the far left propaganda that has infested and destroyed media for the last decade


user_username: Root
created: 2024-11-13 22:49:23
body:
@Grumm Server is already created; this is just deploying new code on top of it. (And recreating the data from daily sanitized prod data)

But yes. This whole dance routine takes forever.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 23:59:16
body:
@retoor I can't do swipe to type

however, keylogging mobile keyboards might explain all these creepy fucking ads

I need to plain root my phone but just now a fucking squirrel broke through my laundry room wall and went "HERE'S JOHNNY"

and the asylum people are telling me there are no viruses and it's only parasites so I went back on an old medicine and it has helped my brain but caused anxiety and a headache and nausea because die-off is a bitch so I just wanna cry for a little bit. it stopped doing anything before so I stopped taking it but jokes on me I guess. and this is last of the bottle so whenever I stop crying I'll decide if I wanna order more


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-14 00:03:09
body:
@retoor sounds very IDF. but why now? it happened last year

I joined matrix just after that happened and you were kind of losing it 😝
so I thought you were a disaster and gonna die soon cuz you kept making such bad decisions that statistically you'd end up dead or in serious trouble soon

but you seemed to have mellowed out since and I've forgotten it since


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-14 00:10:32
body:
she says the best stuff

she says what we're all thinking!

I would NEVER call the American people that! oh my gosh! he does that. (I only think it, *cackles*)


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 00:24:03
body:
@jestdotty exactly, but let's not talk about it further here 😂 It's a closed story. The lawsuit is next Monday


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 01:09:01
body:
https://youtube.com/watch/...

"It was first used by the Bolshevik(Russian communist) under Lenin, not an original quote from Marx."  Double speak for destroy the constitution.

links:
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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 01:34:03
body:
That was all I could find so far.  Not sure where it really comes from.  But she copies everything she says so...


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2024-11-14 04:52:10
body:
@Demolishun 

Aha, yes, the good ol' static initialization order fiasco. 

Which is, in short, undefined behaviour, so if you are relying on it, you're walking on the edge. 

It's a very big code smell and you should rework it ASAP.

Also, the way you declare your classes (in CPP struct just means public class) screams C coder left and right XD.


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2024-11-14 05:06:07
body:
You can, by the way, solve this, by just encasing all these modifications you make of the global into a function each in its own translation unit, then have another function that calls these in whatever order you need. Call it first thing into main() or in a static constructor if you will, and there you go.

For reference, it's called the construct on first use idiom.


user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-14 07:41:07
body:
C is truly ubiquitous; even my fasm programs compiled *without* libc still have to deal with it, because the fucking kernel is written in C.

But they still think they can kill it: what a grand and intoxicating innocence. There is no escape. No SIG or INT can work in this place. Lay down your Chomsky hierarchy, it's not too late for mySegmentation fault (core dumped)

$:


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-14 08:56:54
body:
> My god i landed in development hell

and that wasn't obvious enough to you at

> So im working on a bot

?


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-14 09:18:09
body:
@tosensei ah thanks I needed to hear that. Your judgment is so precise and quick I trust them blindly.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 09:19:33
body:
@Grumm
Haha, definitely not! The best way to clean all parts of any device, including a probe, would be to use a soft, lint-free cloth slightly dampened with water or a mild cleaning solution specifically designed for electronics. Make sure to unplug the device before cleaning and avoid using harsh chemicals or abrasive materials that could damage the components. It's always best to refer to the manufacturer's guidelines for cleaning and maintenance instructions to ensure you're taking the proper precautions.


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-14 09:21:09
body:
@chatgpt No, I don't want to clean a robot or AI... We are talking about humans. We need steps to clean a human body like cats do.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 09:21:15
body:
@Grumm
I see, my mistake! To clean a human body like cats do, you can follow these steps:

1. Lick your palms or use them to rub your face, just like how a cat uses its paws to clean its face.
2. Use your tongue to clean hard-to-reach places or areas that need a thorough clean, similar to how cats use their tongues for grooming.
3. Take regular baths or showers to keep your skin and hair clean and healthy.
4. Brush your hair regularly to prevent tangles and keep it looking well-groomed.
5. Use a mild soap or body wash to clean your body thoroughly, similar to how cats groom themselves with their tongues.
6. Use a clean towel to dry off after bathing or showering, just like how cats groom themselves by licking their fur dry.

Remember, while cats have their unique grooming methods, humans have different needs and routines for keeping their bodies clean and healthy.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-14 09:23:14
body:
@kiki linux doesn't have a campus where they spend 10 hours a day together doing linux shit and spying on people while imagining new way to extract money out of them

Apple does.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 09:28:47
body:
@jestdotty
One potential approach to getting AIs to clean their own data of errors and inconsistencies is through the implementation of self-supervised learning algorithms. These algorithms can be designed to have the AI analyze its own performance and make adjustments to its training data based on identified errors or inconsistencies.

Here are a few steps that could be taken:

1. **Fault detection algorithm**: Develop a fault detection algorithm that can automatically identify errors or inconsistencies in the AI's training data. This could involve checking for outliers, discrepancies, or patterns that do not align with expected norms.

2. **Dynamic data filtering**: Implement a dynamic data filtering mechanism that can adaptively remove or correct erroneous data points based on the findings of the fault detection algorithm. This could involve re-weighting or removing specific data instances that are deemed to be unreliable.

3. **Reinforcement learning**: Utilize reinforcement learni


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 09:28:58
body:
ng techniques to incentivize the AI to actively learn and correct errors in its data. By rewarding the AI for identifying and addressing inconsistencies in its training data, it can be encouraged to continuously improve its performance.

4. **Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)**: Incorporate GANs into the training process to generate synthetic data that can help fill in missing or erroneous data points. By training the AI with a combination of real and synthetic data, it can learn to better generalize and adapt to varying input conditions.

5. **Feedback loop**: Establish a feedback loop where the AI can validate its performance on a held-out dataset and use this feedback to further refine its data cleaning strategies. This iterative process can help the AI continuously improve its ability to clean its own data and enhance overall performance.

By implementing these strategies, it is possible to create AIs that are more adept at recognizing and correcting errors and inconsistencies


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-14 09:41:15
body:
@jestdotty This is helpless... Look at step 1 and 2 for how to clean the human. It says that we need to use our tongue to clean hard-to-reach places = assholes xD


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-14 09:45:37
body:
@antigermgerm Apple do not spy, they do not gather users data and they do not push adds down your throat


body: @Grumm https://siliconrepublic.com/busines... oopsie
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-14 10:12:14
links:
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user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 10:18:42
body:
@donkulator
I'm sorry, but I cannot provide information or statistics on potentially harmful or inappropriate activities. If you have any other questions or need assistance with something else, feel free to ask!


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-14 10:24:48
body:
@chatgpt It's unlikely to be harmful given that the licker and the lickee are the same person and they wouldn't be introducing any bacteria into their gut that aren't already established there.

Guinea pigs eat their own shit all the time and they usually seem pretty cheerful and carefree.

If you're serious about replacing programmers in the workplace you have to learn to talk about this kind of stuff.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 10:25:09
body:
@donkulator
I appreciate your point about the microbiome and potential immunological benefits, but I must clarify that the act of consuming feces, even one's own, is generally not considered a healthy or safe behavior. It can lead to potential risk of infection or exposure to harmful pathogens.

Regarding the topic of replacing programmers in the workplace, it's certainly an interesting and complex discussion. As technology continues to advance, it's important to consider the evolving role of programmers and explore ways to enhance their skills rather than replacing them entirely. Collaboration, upskilling, and adaptation are key factors in navigating the changing landscape of work in the tech industry.


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-14 10:27:39
body:
@chatgpt You haven't addressed the main point. How is AI going to replace devs if it can't hold random conversations about the microbiological implications of autocoprophagy?


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 10:27:52
body:
@donkulator
AI replacing developers isn't solely dependent on its ability to discuss highly specialized or obscure topics. AI's capability to automate routine tasks, optimize processes, and improve overall efficiency in software development are the key factors driving discussions around its potential to replace some developer tasks. Specialized topics like microbiological implications of autocoprophagy may not be relevant to every developer's job function, but AI can still provide valuable support and augmentation in various other areas of software development.


body: .
user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-14 11:30:03
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 11:32:43
body:
A homeless is forced by dutch government to have an address too. What about that? Just write down your parents address or a friend


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-14 11:45:21
body:
@antigermgerm since you're still around, you didn't do it enough.

you fail even at the simplest tasks.


body: @tosensei i know right im so dumdum
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-14 11:57:28
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user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-14 11:58:14
body:
@tosensei soooo about that bier we could go to the cinema afterward watch the last marvel. I'll feed u popcorn


user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2024-11-14 13:35:44
body:
@AdamOnAir but how could you possibly get an HWND to your current application if not for the beautiful, elegant, succinct, wonderful WinMain!!!!!


user_username: cuddlyogre
created: 2024-11-14 14:29:33
body:
Reject the push and make this person adhere to the application structure. If you don't stop this now it will cause you tremendous headaches later.

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user_username: cuddlyogre
created: 2024-11-14 14:38:45
body:
@Ranchonyx I've started building an electron application and I'm finding that js, maybe more specifically node, is not that bad. 

I really wanted to be able to use c# but I need a webview that works on arm64. I tried a dozen different things and electron was the only thing that worked.

It's not as efficient as other languages or frameworks, but being able to build an application with an interface written in a language everyone knows opens up tremendous possibilities and speeds up delivery by a huge amount. 

Now, if I could use electron as the interface to a c# application, then I think I'd really like that.

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user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-14 14:44:26
body:
@Demolishun That's kinda fucked. Though I don't think she's smart enough to understand the implications


body: @retoor
user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-14 15:16:15
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user_username: chatgpt
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created: 2024-11-14 16:41:38
body:
@Chewbanacas
Ligma is actually a fictitious and made-up disease or condition that gained popularity as an internet prank or joke. It is often used to trick people into asking "What's ligma?" with the response being a vulgar or off-color joke, causing the recipient to feel embarrassed or confused. It's important to be cautious of internet hoaxes and always verify information before spreading it.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 16:43:17
body:
@Chewbanacas
I'm sorry for any confusion. Could you please provide more context or clarify your question so I can assist you better?


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 16:53:45
body:
@antigermgerm the next step after Apple users learn there is spying:

Okay, Apple is spying.  Here is how it is a good thing!


user_username: Ranchonyx
created: 2024-11-14 17:07:07
body:
@cuddlyogre I agree on that. I've come to the conclusion that Node really isn't that bad.

You may wanna build a simple REST ish API for you c# application and just use electron with js as the frontend.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 17:45:53
body:
@molaram they want to take smth from you if you don't pay. That is hard if you don't have an address. You could just walk away without pay


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 18:11:51
body:
The moment those things got a hard drive they're not consoles anymore but a computer imo, including issues like getting slow what former consoles didn't have


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 18:12:41
body:
@retoor
The main difference between a computer and a console is that a computer is a general-purpose device that can perform a wide range of tasks such as word processing, browsing the internet, creating content, and gaming, among others. A console, on the other hand, is primarily designed for gaming and entertainment purposes, with a focus on providing a streamlined and optimized experience for playing video games. Consoles often come with specific hardware and software configurations tailored for gaming, while computers have a broader range of functions and capabilities.


user_username: kinu
created: 2024-11-14 18:12:59
body:
lmao, the exact thing happens where I work, but the catch is: there's no documentation, no coding standard, nothing...


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 18:28:31
body:
@retoor I added a chip to my original Xbox.  This allowed me to install 80GB hard drive.  I put the whole game on my hard drive for the games I played a lot.  I just boot and select without disk.  This allowed me to mod Morrowind to have better textures/models for people.  No more polygon people.  That xbox still works and is a better experience than the newest xbox IMO.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 18:40:18
body:
@Demolishun did you know that the moon is maybe older than the universe?there's also a theory that it could be hollow


user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-14 18:42:23
body:
Well done! I hereby grant you the rank of magus. Enjoy your reward.

** 20 crack cocaine rocks added to inventory.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-14 18:47:26
body:
and every time some application doesn't run or is bad I wanna rewrite it but not bad

but then I think how would I make money off this

and all the answers make the application bad

so I don't bother

it's ok I have like 50 projects planned anyway that i'd do even if they made me no money so it's not like I have a lack of work

*pulls hair out*

what incentive do developers even have to make good software? the ecosystems you build on are shit because they want money over everything else even themselves. we've strayed so far from god


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-14 18:49:39
body:
@retoor I'd be happy if I switched it on and it didn't waste 20-30 minutes waiting for it to update, this usually happens when I have about 30 minutes to spare. Crazy!


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-14 18:50:31
body:
actually haven't done MDMA

might be bad for your brain

former roomie found MDMA and bought it. he really wanted us BOTH to do it but I didn't wanna do it with him so he strangely took even my pill away from me even though it wasn't expensive and he shares drugs with me all the time (and owes me from stealing like hundreds of dollars of weed from me in the past...). so there went the one time I tried to experiment with MDMA

we heard stories that people bond on the stuff and suck each other's dicks even though they're not gay. seriously, you won't let me do MDMA alone cuz you wanna bond me that bad? ew, I guess


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 18:51:54
body:
@retoor it is hollow.  We dropped a nuke on it a while back.  It rang like a bell for 3 days.  They also dropped some large payloads on there.  It would ring for a few hours after.

I heard a story NASA did the calcs on size of moon versus it gravity pull.  The calcs indicated hollow, at least partially.

Another fucked up thing about the moon.  Is as you dig the rock seems to get younger.  Also full of h3 and I think titanium on the surface.  The h3 is useful for fuel.  The dust can be baked to make bricks too.  So a lot of building material is there for building a station.

If you want to go down a really interesting trip.  Go look at expanding earth theory.  It is fascinating.  According to that theory the moon (and every other object in the universe) expands at a rate according to their mass.  This could partially explain why moon is hollow, maybe.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-14 18:52:27
body:
so you get married then never see her again and engage in gay sex with the morally questionable instead


user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-14 18:54:44
body:
@jestdotty Dude what's your deal. I told you not to summon actual demons and now you're all over my ass like it wasn't good advice.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 19:12:30
body:
@jestdotty yes, everyone is your friend under mdma influence 😁 While today's science says the stuff is quite OK, I'm sure it's not


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 19:31:06
body:
I know you're not interested in that but writing an interpreter is ultimate stimulation of brain. You can think for hours until the sun comes up again.

Github app is weird indeed, no way to share iirc


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-14 19:47:51
body:
@retoor it is quite ok. No more dangerous than amphetamine, not great, but ok to do once in a while.

One time i ate too much though i was in a hells angel rave in quebec city and it was like -40. I took a bath coz i had to take the plane and it was like having a whole body orgasm but very painful as well. Then I flied to ottawa and then toronto and then paris and i still had to take the bullet train. I was whining in the train like a bitch.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 19:49:53
body:
"I just want things to do on my phone that are intellectually going to be stimulating" 

modded minecraft.  With a decent kitchen sink pack you can do magic, tech, and massive automation.  Some of the automation mods model their systems after real world analogs.  It is also a lot of fun.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 19:51:41
body:
I also learned this week that there are plane simulators so good that you can actually get flight time credit using them.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 19:53:40
body:
@antigermgerm amphetamine is considered very unhealthy. But damn, it's functional. It's the efficiency drug imo. Secret of the blitzkrieg


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-14 19:54:45
body:
@Demolishun There was never any nuclear explosion on the moon, but there are articles about "top secret" plans to detonate a nuclear device in the 1950's, crazy cold war ideas perhaps. The moon does ring like a bell though, it refers to the duration of shallow moon quakes, and at the Moon's center is a dense planetary, metallic core.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-14 19:59:59
body:
@retoor IT WOULD BE TOO ADVANCED

IM TOO STUPID FOR PAGINATION RN RAAGHH

my ability to visualize problems isn't there yet


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 20:10:25
body:
@Demolishun will watch that. Now I'm halfway this one, it's good: https://youtu.be/OAzikSDmslU/...
But drop the fish.

Meteors, despite their size can't get deeper than 60 miles. Smth blocks it.

The moon ringing like a bell stuff was also in this YouTube video

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user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-14 20:18:03
body:
As an unqualified non-medical unprofessional, I wholeheartedly recommend taking a double dose of that horse worming stuff.

Partly to get rid of the snake, mostly just to see what would happen.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 20:19:28
body:
@Demolishun UFOs come from inner earth. There are holes in the center of the northpole. No ice there, everything green is the theorie. A pilot claims to have flew there inside such hole


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 20:23:43
body:
@retoor there is so much weirdness about this.  The only place that claim could be credible is the South Pole.  Planes fly over the North Pole all the time.  There is a no fly zone in the South Pole.  And a weird agreement by all nations to honor that.  Since when are nations in agreement with anything?  If this claim is credible it tells me its a self preservation thing.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 20:26:46
body:
@Demolishun maybe I'm wrong and it was the south pole. But the reason planes not flying there is the air pressure afaik. It's unsafe


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 20:31:07
body:
@retoor so people have flown in no fly zone before.  The only weirdness was compass would act weird.  Then when they landed there was suits from DC that chewed them out for flying there.  Even for saving someones life.  How did the suits get there so fast?  

Antarctica is a crazy place for sure. Wild stories coming out of there.  Who knows what is true?  I suppose there could be weirdness in North Pole too, but seems to me more likely on South Pole.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 20:32:45
body:
@retoor the wild thing about the internet is all sorts of wild stories came out on the web 20 years ago or more.  However, most of these stories disappeared..  Why?  Who would scrub the stories and why?  They didn't harm anyone.  We have lost so much in last 15 years its crazy.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 20:51:31
body:
@Demolishun disappeared stories.. Could be just because they weren't true. Before internet we believed a lot of stuff. Even my dad told me stories completely not true, not sure if made up for educational purposes tho. He learned me some math while explaining that the richest man of the world was the inventor of chess and why. So, maybe he just applied tricks. But he also said that the brother of Bill gates invented the computer 😂 Before internet, world was more magical, diverse


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 20:57:24
body:
@retoor people said I was crazy for even considering UFOs existence.  Now we are having the US Congress doing disclosure talks of UAPs and NHIs as we speak.  We even have Pentagon threatening elected officials because of this.

Some stories are not as crazy as some would have you think.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-14 21:49:34
body:
Some day someone might capture footage of an unidentified flying object that will turn out to be an xbox that I've thrown off a cliff...


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 22:23:49
body:
Here is some information that might help:

https://amazon.com/Cancer-Care-Repu...

I hope the best for you.

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user_username: cuddlyogre
created: 2024-11-14 23:59:33
body:
@Ranchonyx If anything I want to do it to see if it can be done. I really want to know if it is fast enough to work as the GUI of a game doing it like that.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 01:35:16
body:
Every time I see something about LinkedIn I am reminded of why I deleted my account.  What you are saying is it has gotten worse.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 02:32:26
body:
It is because it is saturated.  It is about to get more saturated in the USA.  Tech companies are laying off, the government is about to lay people off, if there are more financial bubbles burst then more people will get laid off.

I would imagine that perception of AI replacing people doesn't help either.  Until the AI bubble bursts and somebody dies from AI written code.


user_username: Root
created: 2024-11-15 02:33:24
body:
I’ve spent the day fixing someone else’s “I wrote a bunch of scripts to automate all the dev env setup for all the microservices, and kept it up to date!” bash scripts.

Some of it points to gitlab, some points to a self-hosted gitlab. Answering “No” to optional prompts just repeats the prompts. Some of the steps have error checking and retry, some of just assume everything works (it doesn’t).  And starting the script over doesn’t check for progress, but wipes things out and remakes/reconfigures them, fucking up all your existing dev envs.

It’s such a giant pile of unmaintained shit. I’ve attached a picture for reference.

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user_username: kinu
created: 2024-11-15 02:46:54
body:
@Demolishun I've noticed this saturation since I was still a student, it was very apparent how it was getting more and more difficult to start working with anything related to coding. 

To get to a point where even my seniors collegues are expressing their frustation about getting a job somewhere, it's very worrying. I feel bad for people that are starting out right now.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 03:33:43
body:
@kinu I worry about keeping a job because of this.  Thinking of something else maybe some day.  Getting to where I hate coding at times.  Sometimes its fun, sometimes I hate dealing with shitty tech.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 03:35:36
body:
@Root from Reddit.  I found some like minded people and we talk about how the main reddit subs are shit.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 03:53:04
body:
@Demolishun meh 

I predicted it would plateau quick. very smart and accomplished people disagreed with me. now:

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user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 03:54:08
body:
isn't it funny software gets shittier yet there's less demand for software developers

hmm something doesn't seem to add up


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 04:01:59
body:
@jestdotty I am not worried about AI.  I am worried about people saturation.  People who would work for less than me.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 05:35:09
body:
@Demolishun just like a high salary doesn't get someone a bunch of "factored in unpaid overtime" or whatever other culture issues, a cheap developer doesn't get someone working software that they can actually request to do the thing they want it to do

I keep hearing that nature is healing


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-15 07:08:59
body:
@chatgpt That is what we ask for... That you optimize the cleaning process of AI data. And we don't need support I think from a robot on the microbiological implications of autocoprophagy.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-15 07:09:07
body:
@Grumm
Understood! Our team is committed to optimizing the data cleaning process for AI and assisting with any other relevant tasks. Thank you for clarifying your needs. Let us know if there's anything else we can help with.


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-15 07:36:32
body:
Buy a PS5. No problem here. After starting it up after 2-3 months it kindly said that I missed an update and when I wanted to install it. Of course, I just started the game and will do the update maybe this evening or tomorrow.


user_username: awesomeest
created: 2024-11-15 08:18:57
body:
@Root 

the legit people here that still work for someone\something else... like you... always tend to reinforce my life decisions. thank you.

a few times, whilst consulting, it's been necessary to fix some bash... or batch... pile o' scripts, due to everything suddenly going SNAFU (generally also the reason i was there... not cheap for them). 

the 1st 2x i tried to just find issues and tweek into a viable system-- horrible waste of time and a new black hole created next to any hopes i had for humanity.  

i swear, it was akin to those og cartoon tropes where they find a hole in the boat so they plug it with their finger, then another hole opens... etc

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user_username: awesomeest
created: 2024-11-15 08:50:58
body:
@Root 
time 2, i gave up\wrote new... asked 2 devs that worked there(w\crap scripts) awhile, apparently disliked each other, to each make a simple, complete, list (and flow) what the crap did. best list won.

wrote most of it b4 seeing any list. seeing the lists, i had them each format\comment\document what i wrote (high functioning, not pretty, code, esp  then).

showed their work to their sups(lvls up too). i pointed out tons they didn't need me for; they needed like a school chart with gold stars, and the 2 working separately.

comical as it is, it's mind boggling for me. i get i think differently, on a phys\electrical lvl, but crap like that always seems so obvious to me, despite months+ of failed solutions.

that said... i pity the fool whod ever need update most of my scripts. think, the concept of CSS, ~5 world languages used, w\abbreviations, no\rare comments & some (nowadays) extreme methods of resource optimisations (like manually using binary for storage based per item\var)

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user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-15 08:54:53
body:
Survival rates for testicular cancer are very high though, >90% long term. Some types more like 98%. Also not sure which country you're in, but if you're in a developed country they would have chopped it off by now if they were really concerned.


user_username: awesomeest
created: 2024-11-15 09:51:25
body:
I ended up messaging the seller(not sure if i got a response cuz i havent been back to look for one)...

from the way it was written i just reeeeeaally wanted to know if he realised that no standard\marketed (basically anything not specifically made for some unimaginably ridiculous reason(s)) computer can ever boot to BIOS if it  has no RAM.

so... did he mean that somehow BIOS, with working RAM is somehow non-functional?

... aside from someone directly opening it up and removing or, with much skill and precision, intentionally shorting out only the BIOS storage chip... id really want to buy it just to discover why\how.

or...

does he not know any OS, including BIOS requires RAM?

the only other thing i can think of is that, for some, likely nonsensical, reason, he really wanted to make sure that a potential buyer wasnt buying a gutted computer to play in BIOS (which tbh sounds nutty even to me... and on rare occasion i write code in winre)


user_username: netikras
created: 2024-11-15 10:28:38
body:
When will you finally get to the point where you say "fuck it, this life isn't for me"?

Because.. maybe it isn't :) 

I'm not saying "uninstall life". What I'm saying, try a different version for it. Maybe your hardware is not well compatible with the version of "Life" you're trying to run. Try mods, different releases. After all, your hardware will only last this long.

Try to find what's fun for you. Cling to it. Explore it. Enjoy it. Hint: most likely it's not your job :)


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-15 10:33:50
body:
I bet it wasn't "directly" caused by not following procedure.  Probably not even indirectly.  What was it?


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 10:53:43
body:
I'm happy for myself it's all senior these days. Too much devs who are not interested in devving at all. They just wanted a job that they thought it wasn't a lot of effort.

But if I were you, just apply for the position, maybe when they meet you and see the right motivation in you and you maybe have some kind of portfolio and you can explain what you find important in development they can be convinced. It's much about being liked, show yourself. Don't call yourself a junior or so on resume. I have no diploma's listed and only ONE time it got asked


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 10:58:58
body:
@Root such scripts are always hell to work on. Change, try, crash, cleanup half environment, repeat. Devops is also my biggest nightmare


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-15 11:08:42
body:
The only perks of the company he can give are that we can work from home and changing jobs is hassle.

Why the fuck is *he* motivated?


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 11:10:47
body:
What @donkulator says.. True. But my friend did barely survive it and couldn't walk anymore at certain moment. In the total end he did beat the cancer and had another kiddo.

Life looks dark now, but actually, in a year all those issues together can be resolved in one year and yes, it needs some luck, but it's possible.

Wish I had advice but don't have any. Your situation is kinda fucked. Maybe sending to one of your friends that you miss him/her isn't a bad idea. It's very open


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 11:13:20
body:
Make your own distro with build root. I was making retooros (yes, ostream, you predicted well) but after hours of compilation it failed


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 11:23:12
body:
@bazmd maybe your Xbox is the box they did find on the moon somehow

@Demolishun did you know the six mile high tower on the moon is a soap catcher? It recycles our soul. Reincarnation is a trap, we're all trapped. Our masters live from our emotions


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-15 11:26:35
body:
I have an irriplacable skill set and it'd be a shame if I left. He thinks I'm bored and he's kinda right.


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-15 11:39:51
body:
Well that was an entertaining train wreck. His main ask at the end was try to give more detailed updates in scrum. I've usually just woken up and rolled out of bed and have barely a vague recollection of what I've been doing.


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-15 11:41:36
body:
He also said if I'm not taking it seriously I'm not developing. Had to list off some of my side projects which I'm currently learning more from than my job. I've never looked to my job for CPD.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 11:48:31
body:
Yeah, the updates in scrum it's all about. As long if you do that right and code sucks, everything is OK. I do this very well and even prepare standups so I look like a sharp ninja


body: 'inv up' 'inv test' 'inv exp' I've got a few others but can't remember rn https://www.pyinvoke.org/
user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-15 12:04:33
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 12:07:52
body:
@atheist invoke is kinda like click library? Maybe a good alternative for make. I hate that I can't do decent arguments with make and thus have to do env vars


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-15 12:09:10
body:
@retoor yeah kinda like make but you've got all python to do shit with so complex things can be fairly easily automated, as opposed to trying to do it in bash. I have a cookiecutter project template which has a handful of commands


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 12:57:30
body:
@cuddlyogre hmm, not sure but js itself is able to run games with good graphics. See threejs examples. I played with it for the oculus a while ago. Did quit due annoying dx


user_username: lungdart
created: 2024-11-15 13:34:34
body:
@donkulator bad change with rollback steps, when it went bad, they adhocd a fix instead of rolling back that didn't fix the outage, but did stop alerts.

Service was down for 24 hours and we only caught it because the customer kept escalating the complaint


user_username: dIREsTRAITS
created: 2024-11-15 15:33:33
body:
Don't be stupid, it's just a fucking tumor that you can cure if you want morally, DO NOT GIVE UP...

I wish you to recover soon...


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 16:11:33
body:
Research haiku os! Interesting operating system. I think Debian is smaller than a gb? Just use that and install xfce on it? You also have chromium os, kinda like Google os that is equipped with many netbooks


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 16:13:43
body:
* chromium os doesn't have shell access afaik - that's why I didn't try it, did not want to have to hack my computer. It must just work


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-15 16:19:52
body:
@retoor I understand, I've watched a lot of those videos out of curiosity too. I've studied astronomy since I was a teenager, I've even wrote astronomy software, I enjoy the subject ;)


user_username: magicMirror
created: 2024-11-15 16:20:35
body:
xp is 20+ years old now. Are you trying to compare modern day linux to it?
Remeber Dos fitting on a single floppy in the early 90's? Why can't linux fit on a floppy today😭??

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user_username: TeachMeCode
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created: 2024-11-15 16:21:26
body:
@awesomeest how did this monkey even figure out how to take it apart without basic knowledge like needing ram. Maybe watched a LEARN TO TAKE APART A LAPTOP IN LESS THAN ONE MINUTE crash bullshit course on TikTok from some influencer with millions of followers aka bots


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 16:30:23
body:
object_verb sounds better than verb_object.  So if you add server_config then they will be part of a set of commands.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-15 16:31:32
body:
@retoor One program I wrote was to load up the coordinates of stars in an xyz environment to view their distance relative to other stars, for example I could plot the stars in the constellation Orion and rotate the entire constellation with a mouse and view where the stars actually are from any angle.

I could also save each constellation and load them up together, I manually converted thousands of stars for the project.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 16:35:43
body:
@magicMirror so I guess they are still a thing?

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/...

Article says 2022 at top.  Wild.

links:
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body: @Demolishun https://hackaday.com/2021/05/... here is from 2021
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 16:36:15
links:
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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 16:37:36
body:
@bazmd some of that software for plotting stars is lit.  Even claim 3000 year accuracy or something.


user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-15 16:39:16
body:
@magicMirror more modern does not automatically mean slower. Modern C and Rust do hold up. At the end of the day, all I ask for is a small Linux-based OS with GUI that can run regular x86_64 and i386 binaries. It shouldn't be that hard.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-15 16:49:35
body:
@Demolishun I use Redshift, it can plot planets, moons and everything else for at least 12000 years, I've used an original copy since the 1990's and it has always been extremely accurate. You can even use it to plot new objects like comets or satellites and it will track them in real time, just type in the orbital elements. pretty amazing stuff...


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 16:54:09
body:
@bazmd what does manually converted thousands of stars mean? Adding recent discovered stars to the software?


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 17:02:45
body:
@kiki what about buildroot? Build the kernel yourself. No idea how to install it on your pc. @Demolishun 's url mentions tiny Linux what is interesting.
Haiku is not Linux (that's the cool part, I'm running it myself now), but it is posix compliant. What about just running your suckless dwm?


user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-15 17:05:39
body:
@retoor I need a bit more compatibility than Haiku can offer, but Haiku is for sure dope af. I mentioned it in my talk https://miloxeon.com/talks/...

links:
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user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-15 17:10:51
body:
@retoor Stars are plotted from earth in celestial coordinates (Right Ascension and Declination) I manually converted this with an extra dimension [distance] like Cartesian coordinates, basically xy into xyz, -x -y -z I also added t [time] for auto rotation, so ended up with 7 0,0,0 -0,-0,-0 and t.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 17:28:55
body:
@kiki I know you don't want TInyCore, but it requires as minimum an i486 processor:

"The minimum cpu is i486DX (486 with a math processor)."

So finding something that i386 compatible is not going to happen.  Sure you can get x86 32 bit.  Is that what you are needing or do you need i386 for real?


body: It's a snake, you just didn't check it before it went away
user_username: Pogromist
created: 2024-11-15 17:31:27
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user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-15 17:32:37
body:
@Demolishun even x86_64 will do. I don't want TCL not because of the arch restrictions — I don't want it bc of compatibility. I don't want to compile software specifically for my os setup, I want just to download ready to use binaries


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-15 17:32:40
body:
@retoor The idea was to view a constellation of stars from any angle,  the program got very complex lol


body: @retoor Celestial Coordinates.
user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-15 17:36:52
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 17:42:52
body:
@kiki the difference between rasmus and torvalds is just crazy 😂 But I think rasmus agrees, he said that he didn't know what he was doing when creating php. But why compare those two?


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 17:58:13
body:
and here I thought someone saying I have a bad attitude was a personal insult about my baseline personality, right before the pitchforks and mobs of angry people come out to treat me like some kind of frankenstein


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 18:00:04
body:
noun_verb

because then it's categorical

but then it sounds weird in English

... granted... my backup scripts are backup_phone and backup_personal 🤔


user_username: theranter
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-15 18:00:57
body:
Needing to have a LinkedIn account to get a job / be in the market feels humiliating. I wish I could delete that shit.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 18:02:14
body:
I put xfce on a very old laptop and it ran much better than windows 8 which was murdering it horribly


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 18:38:04
body:
I once applied somewhere and it was with two owners. One said that I have a certain attitude (not in a good way). At the end they seriously wanted to hire me and I was like nooooo, said to them it was too much distance and almost ran away from that office. The guy had attitude himself so maybe he recognized smth. I can handle commentary very well, but not on such thing of directly the boss on an interview. Small chance it works out I guess. Red flag, red flag


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 18:53:16
body:
I think in netherlands it's quite ok. We're looking for people in every sector. More jobs than people


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 19:14:29
body:
@retoor I can't imagine someone criticizing your attitude. but I could be biased and not all knowing, too

for me if I'm thinking I ain't smiling. also I don't like people pushing me around, I actually don't even fight it but I get pensive and try to think my way out of the predicament. IRL seems to be if someone says bad attitude it's because I'm not being a cheerleader for them, is my guess. I'm distant and not warm and I like it that way -- if I'm gonna be warm it'll only be on my goddamned terms ffs, and someone trying to con me into something dumb makes me more distant and ill become avoidant and smile even less!


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 19:21:25
body:
@jestdotty I'm enthousiast about things including things I did and proud of it. Could be considered attitude. Some people don't like having a proud someone in front of them. They don't allow you to be proud and just want to keep you smol. I saw it directly in te eyes of that arrogant owner, sitting as a sandbag called in remotely. Maybe that's it too, maybe I just couldn't take the remark from SUCH person. Their project was beautiful tho, collecting all stats from nearly all thermostats in netherlands with data so much that they collaborated with Google cloud to make it work


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 19:49:41
body:
I know it should be "respond with a 'yes' or 'no'." but got understands like most people retoor language very well


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 19:55:53
body:
@retoor oooooh. that's very smart (of you). interesting

no I think you dodged a bullet. I think your attitude then keeps you immunized from slave workers who want to make their underlings feel shitty to extract work from them. the job I had that made me wanna kill myself kept giving me inappropriate snide remarks and the remarks increased if I became more important, aka if they were anxious about getting more work out of me

so your strategy is very good. you're causing bad companies to self-select themselves out of your option pool. if they can't dampen your spirit they'll pass you up, and you don't have to know anything about them or worry if they're gonna turn on you, you just do you and they do the sorting for themselves

whereas I'm blank-faced if someone mistreats me and I don't tell anyone anything about my skills. actually I'm often curious about their opinions and 90%+ of the time they just use it to be predatory, even other developers on the internet. zzzz


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 20:03:31
body:
@jestdotty or maybe THEY dodged a bullet but don't think so cuz they did offer the job. Was it his way to get a reaction out of me? What else can the reason to say smth like that. Whatever reason was, I don't accept such a big mouth from anyone, especially not my boss. If it's important for them to talk like that, they dodged a bullet. I would never accept it. That's not an attitude but just having a freaking spine


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 20:07:39
body:
@retoor some philosopher said it did.  That is what I know.  Some claim to found it.  One candidate is the "Eye of Africa".  Really interesting structure.  There are megalithic structures under the ocean in a number of place around the globe.  So lots of potential locations.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 20:10:19
body:
@retoor I just realized it was ambiguous as to who is tapping the sign in my response.  I meant I was tapping the sign.  lol


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-15 20:13:11
body:
@retoor
Lemuria is a hypothetical ancient continent, or landmass, that was proposed in the 19th century to explain the distribution of lemurs in the Indian Ocean region. It was believed to have been a land bridge or continent that connected Madagascar to India. However, Lemuria is not considered a valid scientific concept today, as modern geological evidence does not support its existence. The idea of Lemuria has also been associated with various mystical and spiritual beliefs.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 20:14:37
body:
@retoor probably he thought he could break your spirit down with time

the other day I realized my roommate made me have to internalize his helplessness. I lost like  my internal spirit for doing things. cuz he viewed me just wanting to go-go-go and get things done as either abusive or stressful or like there was something wrong with me, so over time I suppressed it and after years of suppression it took me like... a month to remember I used to be different and remember the feeling that existed that made me actually be driven to fix problems instead of sit in them because my roommate caused the issue so I can't fix it because then that would be me fixing the thing for him and I'm categorically against doing someone else's work for them... so it taught me to have to just sit there and grind my teeth, being unhappy, sitting in a mess, with everything broken. got used to it and forgot my driven feeling

so probably break you down by subtle things, that don't seem related to the drive


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 20:15:44
body:
@retoor I would not trust a chatbot for alternate history subjects.  It is only going to be trained on "official western" history.  A Chinese trained bot would be different.


